"I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is"

"I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal"

"In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron"

"I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends"

"And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love"

"In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero"

"By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man"

"I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before"

"The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young"

"I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't"

"But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know"