Joe Swanberg Quotes

I love crying at romantic movies like 'The Notebook.' I'm always bawling.

I want to turn my attention to movies about love relationships. Exploring the female psyche - there ought to be some interesting discoveries there. Love stories. If you do it right, people want to hear romantic dialog.

I watch 'The Notebook.' I love romantic movies. I love romantic comedies.

I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.

'Romeo And Juliet' is the classic love story. When two lovers are separated and trying to get back to one another, that's fiercely romantic and something you become glued to.

I love romantic films and love drama. Any film that has romance or romantic element is my comfort.

I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.

I hate to go to movies or watch a TV show and know the ending within 15 minutes.

I never got the opportunity to be romantic or feel romantic with anyone.

An audience who watches my shows knows who I am, knows that right when they think I'm going to make a joke, I'm going to blow something up, or during the worst peril, I'm going to have someone give someone a kiss - it's just going to happen.

When romance is done well in a movie, it's awesome.

It's always very important to me to try to create a story that feels unpredictable. You can't jump ahead and see what's coming, but at the end, when you've watched the whole thing, it all feels inevitable.

Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

When we first met, I didn't want to get involved with anyone. I didn't have the time or energy, and I wasn't sure that I was ready for it. But you were so good to me, and I got swept up in that. And little by little, I found myself falling in love with you.

Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on.

I like surprises. I like mystery. I’m not the kind of person who goes to the writer’s room and goes, I need to know the whole story so I can prepare. No, don’t tell me anything!

I was in love with Scott Bennett. That I had been in love with him my whole life, practically.

I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.

Love is the one surprise.

Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration. Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper; you are the most special person in my life.

I don't really like surprises. Not big ones anyway. Just having a pack of Revels holds enough of a surprise for me.

Peter curled his hands into fists at his sides. 'Kiss me,' he said. She leaned towards him slowly, until her face was too close to be in focus. Her hair fell over Peter's shoulder like a curtain and her eyes closed. She smelled like autumn-like apple cider and slanting sun and the snap of the coming cold. He felt his heart scrambling, caught inside the confines of his own body. Josie's lips landed just on the edge of his, almost his cheek and not quite his mouth. 'I'm glad I wasn't stuck in here alone,' she said shyly, and he tasted the words, sweet as mint on her breath.

I feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes, and the wonder of it all is you just don't realize how much I love you.

When I read the scripts, I'm always so excited to see what's going to happen because it's unpredictable.

Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me.
 Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.