It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre nowadays it's so much harder than it ever was.

There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing and romantic comedies are a classic genre.

Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre I don't mind saying that it's true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them.

In mainstream romantic comedies I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy to period film... I can't sit still.

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.

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

I think romantic comedy when done right is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.

I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.