I've done hundreds of interviews. Sometimes I fall in love with someone because their work is so terrific, or because they're funny when I hadn't expected that, or they are so intimate that I want to protect them. Sometimes I fall out of love, too, but that's much rarer.

Laura Dern (Redbook)
I had heard Dern was dating Billy Bob Thornton, but she denied it. So I stayed around after the interview, and was there when Thornton came to pick her up.

Bet Your Bottom Dollar (Times of London)
A story I wrote right after my mother died, before I even knew I was going to write Hats & Eyeglasses.

Toni Collette (Movieline)
This was around the time of Muriel's Wedding. Collette is such a doll.

Robert Sean Leonard (Movieline)
I'm so happy that he's gotten so much attention for his great work on House.

Laetitia Casta
The supermodel didn't want to talk about anything. The hardest interview I ever did.

Julia Stiles (Movieline)
Stiles was such a sweet kid.

Jennifer Beals (Movieline)
The Flashdance icon goes with me to play poker

Andy Garcia (Movieline)
Absolutely the coolest (and sexiest) conservative in the world

Rebecca De Mornay (Movieline)
The cool girl form Risky Business lets her hair down

Steve Guttenberg (Movieline)
The luckiest man in Hollywood

Tips For Girls (Movieline)
What girls learn from the movies--- not much!

Richard LeGravenese (Movieline)
The master screenwriter writes women's parts like no one else

Who's the best actor in Hollywood? (Movieline)

Samantha Mathis (Movieline)
Mathis is hot as a pistol

Howard Stern (Movieline)
The master of his own universe

Kelly Preston (Movieline)
Preston lets me quiz her, and quiz her, about hubby John Travolta

David Duchovney (Movieline)
Duchovney was sexy even before it was news!

Rob Lowe (Movieline)
LOOOOOOOOVE him

Jeremy Northham (Movieline)
No more Mr. Knightly

Juliette Binoche (Movieline)
She made me lunch--- in Paris!

Lou Diamond Phillips (Movieline)
His wife left him for Melissa Etheridge! I could not stop laughing