James Gray Quotes

A lot of romantic comedies are just light romantic dramas, or the comedy comes off second-best.

Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.

I would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy.

I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.

My favorite genre of movies growing up was the romantic comedy.

I'd like to do 'My Best Friend's Wedding,' 'Pretty Woman,' Meg Ryan type stuff. Romantic comedies. I'd love to do some action stuff as well.

I don't get a lot of romantic comedy scripts.

I would love to do some crazy action or even a real romantic comedy. I think that would be really exciting.

I don't know what I'd do if I was making a romantic comedy; I wouldn't feel like I was earning my $100 a day.

Interestingly for me, modern rom coms have not always been funny - many of the iconic rom coms are more like light dramas with occasional comedic moments, often coming from secondary character.

I loved 'Truly Madly Deeply' and all those 1990s romcoms because you had great actresses like Juliet Stevenson and Emma Thompson starting out.

Yeah, romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year.

I would have loved to do romantic comedies. That's what I think I would be best at.

I'd always been quite wary of doing a romantic comedy. They all seem the same to me.

I think the best romantic comedies don't have villains.

Romantic comedies are backbreaking to write because they have to be fresh.

For me, the romantic comedies I love are the ones that pay homage to the genre, but also find their ways to twist it and tweak it.

My favorite genre is definitely romantic comedy. I love 'When Harry Met Sally.'

I've had ideas for romantic comedies, but it would be a much more darkly comic version than what usually sells tickets.

If it's a good romantic movie like The Notebook or...The Longest Ride . No, I don't know. I thought it would be great to work on one of those genres and we made a pretty darn good version of one of those. There are some that come off as sort of cheesy, but this one was pretty good.

If it was a great script and a great character, I would love to do a romantic comedy.

I would say 80% of the scripts I get are dramas and not comedies or romantic comedies, which is funny because that's what I do every week.

I feel like I've done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies.

Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them.

I watch 'The Notebook.' I love romantic movies. I love romantic comedies.