Ian Mcewan Quotes

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.

I never felt comfortable about my looks until I married Reed Vreeland. I believe in love at first sight because that's what it was. I knew the moment our eyes met that we would marry.

A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.

I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships.

My wife read Narc as well and was really into it.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.

I think a director can make a play happen before your eyes so that you are part of it and it is part of you. If you can get it right, there's no mystery. It's not about mystery. It's not even mysterious. It's about our lives.

The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our love story and our whole history. So it's a very different movie.

I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

I don't really make movies with an intention other than asking myself, 'Do I love the character, and do I love the story?'

Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances!

I really love storytelling.

I endeavor not to conceal that I believe there is a great mixture of desire in the passion which is called love--or rather, without any far-fetched strain on words, it may be called the companion of love.

When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool. Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything.

Why do fools fall in love? I'll tell you why, because everybody else has simply got too much else to do.

I love love and falling in love, but it can get pretty flat real fast.

I do think that marriage can be a wonderful thing if it's the right thing for the two people involved. I believe in love - very much so - how can you not believe after you've experienced it? I believe in relationships. One day, I know I'll find the right woman and get married myself.

I know love at first sight can work. It happened to my parents.

I see love developing from friendship. Common ground is a strong basis for friendship. My husband is my best friend and we have a lot in common even though we're admittedly different people. I think it evolves from how I see relationships working. You know, the opposites attract thing happens all the time, but so does the best friends thing. It's just a great kind of relationship in fiction.

I believe in love - yes, I'm one of those girls.

Love, I've come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.

The biggest idea that I have learned - I basically went in to write a book about Adam and Eve, ended up writing a book about love. And what did I learn? Love is a story you tell with another person.

Everything we do is about the emotion of the characters. We believe the better the emotion, the better the movie.