Brad Hall Quotes

I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, 'His Girl Friday' and 'Bringing Up Baby', those old movies.

I am a big fan of the old Howard Hawks films from the 30s and 40s, I was a big Hepburn and Tracey fan for a while and Woody Allen films that are a very different kind of romantic comedy.

I've always loved the '40s romantic comedies and the idea of those mistaken identities and lovers' misunderstandings.

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

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

I'm the first one who sees every romantic comedy in theaters.

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.

And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

I'm a sucker for 'When Harry Met Sally' and all that romantic stuff.

I'm definitely a romantic comedy dude because I'm a big romantic at heart. I'm a softy, so it's always nice to watch movies that make you think that love at first sight is actually possible.

I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.

Mind you, Roman Holiday - which is kind of a romantic comedy - is one of my favorite films, and I think Audrey Hepburn is absolutely phenomenal in that movie.

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.

What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity.

When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

I would love to play the lead in a big romantic comedy. That's definitely a dream of mine.

If you love movies, then you love America.

I love crying at romantic movies like 'The Notebook.' I'm always bawling.

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

I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something really weird and surreal about it that I find energizing.

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

Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.