Rudy Vallee Quotes

It's just so hard to get movies made, especially comedies.

I have worked in both comedy films and romance.

I'm lucky that I get to jump around, do a big-budget comedy and then a smaller film. I don't even make a big distinction between them. No one believes this, but it's the same. I'm the same person, trying to make it work. I just love being on a movie set. I like making movies.

I want to make films that make people laugh hard, and I am not afraid to walk away from this business tomorrow.

If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios.

I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films.

Big studio comedies are such a headache.

It's rare to have even half-meaningful conversations in the film industry.

I've always loved movies, since I was a little kid, but I never wanted to be part of that industry. It always seemed horrifying, the way films were made.

L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.

I knew nothing about the independent film industry. I didn't know much about the industry itself. All I knew was how to watch movies, how to enjoy them, how to hate them, how not to like them.

Writing studio movies is the best job in the world... it's awesome.

Mankiewicz was a brilliant director.

There are a lot of directors I'd still love to work with. Paul Thomas Anderson is someone I'd love to work with. I think Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is very talented. Ang Lee is very talented. I mean, there are a lot of people. There are many great directors out there.

Movies cater to what the audiences want.

They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.'

If I were a young man today, I might be lured into the moviemaking industry. You can really make a statement there.

The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.

I had such a good time working with Paul Feig on 'Spy.'

I'd always liked movies in a kind of naive way. They seemed no less improbable a career than anything else.

I want to make movies, TV series, wherever the career takes me.

If you want to write for films or TV, you must go to Hollywood.

Judd Apatow is amazing, and everything he does is so cool.

When I was filming 'Premium Rush' in N.Y.C., I flew to L.A. to have a few general meetings. I sat down with Peter Cramer at Universal Studios and spoke about my life and career, and being that I'm such a goof, we spoke about how I really wanted to do a comedy next.

I definitely want to go the route of feature films.