Mariella Frostrup Quotes

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.

I love love stories, no matter how dark.

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

I think women love to read love stories.

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

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

In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.

I'm getting a lot of uninteresting romantic lead guys that look good and fall in love sort of garbage.

My favorite movies are love stories.

My favorite movie is 'Closer' and 'Love Story.'

I think I'll always be a hopeless romantic.

There's no dancing girls. We're kinda like secondary to the thing. It's a story about these two guys that are in love with this one girl and how it unfolds and what happens.

Every book should have a romance.

I could go my whole life and say, 'I'm not going to do anything with a love triangle,' but whenever you have a romance, there has to be some obstacle, and even the dumbest romantic comedies have a love triangle or something.

For reasons I don't fully understand, tragic love has a certain appeal.

When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.

I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.

I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.

Then there's the story of ill-fated love. It's universal.

When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.

Romance classically has tragic underpinnings to it.

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.

With 'Carol,' I was just really looking at and thinking about the love story as a genre, not the domestic melodrama.