Steven Shainberg Quotes

almost all novels are love stories.

Do you want this to be a love story?

All my films are love stories.

I believe all stories are love stories, and there are kinds and kinds of love, so I will always write about love, but not necessarily romance.

'Puffball' is a love story... no, it's a life story.

For reasons which I can't logically explain, in all of the films I've done, I've ended up doing love stories of one kind or another, and it seems to me that love stories are extremely dependent on the obstacles you can place between the lovers. There is no love story without it.

I think love is one of the most elusive things in the world. I don't know that there's a perfect formula for it and that's what makes the stories interesting.

No love story worth telling is easy. The hills and valleys that make a relationship, in my opinion, is really a dynamic worth watching.

The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.

There's no good story without romance.

To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.

I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them.

Usually, in romantic comedies, you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know, just two attractive people and a good soundtrack.

Every first thing is always a miracle. The first person you fall in love with. The first letter you receive. The first stone you throw. And in my conception of the novel, the letter becomes important. But what's more important is the fact that we need to continue to tell each other stories.

I love stories. I loved stories when I was a kid. My mom read stories to me all the time.

My stories are fundamentally about the love of family.

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

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.

'What time is it,' you ask? According to 16 of my dearest writing pals, it's always time for a wonderful romance!

People love stories. They need stories.

Any story is better with a little love in it, right?

I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.

People want a story - and my horror films have never been about only ghosts and spirits. They have their share of love, hatred, jealousy and complexity of relationships involved.

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

Almost every story has a romantic angle to it.