"I like many of his movies. They're so over the top, hysterical, dramatic, funny, romantic, one of a kind. Isabelle Adjani is spectacular."

"I love adolescence and the adolescent mind. Written when she was 18, it’s romantic and so French. A coming of age and independence."

"I like many of his movies. They're so over the top, hysterical, dramatic, funny, romantic, one of a kind. Isabelle Adjani is spectacular."

"I just think it’s the most perfect romantic comedy ever made. I love its honesty and its kind of slightly bleak kind of view of relationships which I think is daring and real, but at the same time it’s not cynical about relationships. It celebrates when relationships can be great, and the joy of meeting someone. It is romantic, but it’s not romanticized."

"Lost Horizon is also one of my top, top favorites… it’s a James Hilton book; Frank Capra made the first one and they remade it. It’s set up in the Andes, where Shangri-La is a valley unlike any place on earth. Jane Wyatt and Ronald Coleman starred in the first one. Again, it’s terribly romantic; I’m a romantic nut!"

"An unrequited love letter to the Jazz Age that manages to be both intimate, epic and achingly romantic about an era that almost never was."

"My wife fell for me when she realized that my grandfather wrote this one. Some of that romantic spirit must have been genetic, she hoped."