Terence Winter Quotes

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

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.

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

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

I love romantic comedies more than anything.

To me, most comedy is dark comedy.

The times I've tried not to be funny, it's never worked, and the times I'm trying not to be dark and just be funny, that never works, either. As varied as my subject matter is, I think the worldview is pretty consistent: seeing darkness and seeing humor.

I think the best comedy is tragicomic. Yeah, I suppose if you were to look at everything I've done, there is a bit of a black streak through all of it. It's not deliberate: it's what makes me laugh, and there's a fine tradition of it, especially in Ireland.

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.

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 like that kind of 'straight-faced' comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous.

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.

Yes, I would say my comedy is grunge, evidenced by the fact my jokes have put an end to big-hair glam comedy.

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they're built to be buoyant. It's easy to demean them.

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.

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

I like dark comedies. That's why I like the Wayans Brothers.

The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising.

I love dark humor that crosses the line and makes you say, 'That's so wrong!' And that's 'Family Guy' to me.

The more cerebral, slightly darker comedy stuff is where I love to live.

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

I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.'

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.

You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.