Ana Layevska Quotes

I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama.

But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.

I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.

Okay. I picked up a movie to watch tonight. You can watch it with me if you like. It's a chick movie. Merri Lee said that means girls like it, not that there are small birds in it.

I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.

I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.

Anders Thomas Jensen and I had talked about making a movie which addressed the cancer issue, and we didn't want to make it heavy-handed. We wanted to do something which had a lot of hope in it. And then for some reason we came up with a romantic comedy.

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

When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.

Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.

'Natural Born Killers' is really a misunderstood romantic comedy.

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

If I can do a romantic comedy with women, that's Everest to me.

It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.

The only thing I would unequivocally say is that I have never had any interest in romantic comedy I just couldn't do it. I think I'd be terrible.

I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.

I hate the term 'rom-com.'

'The Best Man' was my first feature film, and I didn't want to be known as a director who only does romantic comedies.

Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.

I would love to do a rom-com, but they are not good - good and successful doesn't equate to the same thing.

I would love to do a really cool romantic comedy, perhaps with Hugh Grant. I think he is brilliant. That's the kind of film I love to go to see. I love 'girls' films'.

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.

For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.

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