I'm very concerned that we don't make movies that are original anymore.

No one can actually define love, but you attempt to, and the closest you can get is longing. And that itself has a melancholy to it. You can say dread, or doom - it's that feeling we all feel when we fall in love with someone: we have this horrible, fearful feeling that maybe we will never have that person in our life.

The thing that makes love stories work, in my opinion, in movies and novels and country & western songs, is the feeling of longing.

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