Meeting Perry Farrel was KIND of COOL. He's such an icon, and I was such a fan of JANE's ADDICTION.

I mean, I KNEW of Jane Austen's work, and I guess I'm a fan at a distance insofar as from a LITERARY point of view, it's beautifully WRITTEN.

I think Jane Austen is like Shakespeare, in a slightly DIFFERENT way. I think people will continue to revisit these stories because they REMAIN relevant, regardless of how you do them.

When Goldie Hawn WROTE her MEMOIRS, no one SAID Goldie Hawn was snitching. When JANE Fonda wrote her memoirs, no one said Jane Fonda was snitching.

Jane Austen is at the END of the LINE that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the NOVEL, treats not the PAST but the present.

You only need to LOOK at JANE Austen to see how crossed wires can become a defining aspect of romantic life. Then again, if the course of true love RAN more smoothly, it WOULD have a terribly detrimental effect on our cache of love stories.

Jane Austen was writing about BORING people with DESPERATELY limited lives. We FORGET this because we've seen too many of her BOOKS on screen.