Todd Haynes Quotes

I want to do a love story. I really want to do a love story.

Every book should have a romance.

'The Notebook' is one of my favorite love stories.

My first love is a wonderful script. It's the story.

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 had long wanted to write a love story, and I had long - wisely, I felt - shirked the challenge because I felt it the hardest story of all to write.

I love love stories, no matter how dark.

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 always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.

Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought.

Life is one big love story with hundreds of little love stories within it.

I'd love to do a love story. I've never done a true love story, which would be awesome. But then again, I don't think I've had a true love story, even in my own life. Maybe that's something I want to explore in my own life first.

I think women love to read love stories.

It's a different thing to write a love story now than in the time of Jane Austen, Eliot, or Tolstoy. One of the problems is that once divorce is possible, once break-ups are possible, it can all become a little less momentous.

Romantic fiction, in the broader sense, can be any novel that has a love story somewhere in it. It can be a mystery or a historical novel, as long as it has this very strong romantic thread running through it.

I'm always a sucker for a love story.

They've never written a love story for me since I've been on the show and I think there's just more weight to it when two people love each other.

I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.

Romance, eternal love, exists in very few cases. And that's a reality you just have to accept.

'Kaavalan' is not like 'Sivakasi' or 'Pokri'; it's a love story.

I think there is an insatiable appetite for romance and for love stories, which is partly why these books and movies do so well.

'Fidaa' completely sticks to being a love story. It doesn't have any digressions. Opposites attract, they say.

I read too many romance novels during my formative years. I have a penchant for romantic comedies. I understand why 'Romeo and Juliet' came to such a pass.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.