I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.
It was my duty to shoot the enemy and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines soldiers buddies. I'm not naive and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.
I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do some comedy. I'd love to do a romantic comedy and I'd love to do some period pieces with classical text. I'd love somebody to cast me as Macbeth but for a film. I just want to be all over the place.
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke a blot on American history.
So I'm still in my romantic stage with London I love it as a place.
Consider what a romantic expedition you are on take notes.
In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity.
A realist in Venice would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don't last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do.
The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.