All My Films Are Love Stories.

When The Ship Docks, I'm Getting Off With You. This Is Crazy. I Know It Doesn't Make Any Sense, That's Why I Trust It.

I Tend To Like Strong Female Characters. It Just Interests Me Dramatically. A Strong Male Character Isn't Interesting Because It Has Been Done And It's So Cliched. A Weak Male Character Is Interesting: Somebody Else Hasn't Done It A Hundred Times. A Strong Female Character Is Still Interesting To Me Because It Hasn't Been Done All That Much, Finding The Balance Of Femininity And Strength. [from A 1986 Fangoria Interview]

Rose: But Now You Know There Was A Man Named Jack Dawson And That He Saved Me... In Every Way That A Person Can Be Saved

The Films That Influenced Me Were So Disparate That There's Almost No Pattern.

Literary Science Fiction Is A Very, Very Narrow Band Of The Publishing Business. I Love Science Fiction In More Of A Pop-culture Sense. And By The Way, The Line Between Science Fiction And Reality Has Blurred A Lot In My Life Doing Deep Ocean Expeditions And Working On Actual Space Projects And So On. So I Tend To Be More Fascinated By The Reality Of The Science-fiction World In Which We Live.