I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.

Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.

What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity.

Often, romantic comedies exist in a vacuum, and it's kind of odd.

Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they've made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan!