Sean Baker Quotes

I definitely am a huge lover of comedy, and it's only through doing so many comedies that I've realised how much of an influence they've been on me.

I always wanted to do a comedy, but I wanted to pick the right one. But it came down to working with Steve Carell. I've wanted to work with him since I met him years ago as a kid.

If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief.

I would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy.

I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody's different - I don't know how that works.

I'd have to say that my favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning. 'Little Miss Sunshine' is like that. That's my fave genre, if I had to pick one.

I'm a big movie fan, and I want to make movies in every genre. I want to make my romantic comedy one day.

I'm always flabbergasted and overwhelmed by the audience a film reaches.

It's truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It's nuts. It's extraordinary.

We always thought we wanted to do a show that you could both laugh and cry in thirty minutes, and I don't know that there are that many comedies that try for that.

I like that whole cop-comedy type of drama.

I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of an audience watches your film.

One of my favorite comedies of all time is 'Terms of Endearment;' that's my pace.

In order to appeal to a wider audience on network in order to survive, generally your characters need to be, at a base level, a little bit more likable.

I'm not as successful as Pixar or Dreamworks, and that is disappointing to me, because I think my films are as valid as a Pixar film. I think there's an audience for my films. I know there's a market for someone like Quentin Tarantino, who basically does adult cartoons in live action.

I like to play different types roles, but I'd like to do a comedy next.

'Yamla Pagla Deewana' is not slapstick but a situation based comedy.

Action comedy, if you can get it right, it is, for me, a particularly brilliant genre. It really is.

I have done many comedy films. Success of films like 'Partner,' 'Singh is Kinng' gets you to a very wide audience reach. But for greater gains, you need to take greater gambles. If it works, you get respect and recognition.

I'd never made a teen comedy in my life.

I'd like to do a romantic comedy like 'Notting Hill,' which is one of my favorite movies.

I want to do a romantic comedy that nobody thought I could do. And then do a comedy with Dan Aykroyd that is totally different from 'The Blues Brothers.' I'm a comic actor, but I'm an actor, too.

I'm happy that the kind of films I'm doing right now is reaching a wider audience, and I'm looking forward to direct Hindi films as well.

You hope any film finds its audience and makes enough money that you get to make another one.

The emphasis in 'Notting Hill' was perhaps, I thought, slightly more on the romance than on the comedy. But I think 'Mickey Blue Eyes' is maybe slightly more on the comedy. And the tone on 'Mickey Blue Eyes,' it's a far sillier film.