David Slade Quotes

You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.

The short form, for those people who can master it - and I am by no means one of them - it is very admirable, because it is really hard to tell stories that can stick with the audience and still be between 5 and 30 minutes long. I think it's a real challenge.

Suddenly, after years of television being the poor relation and film being everything, it now feels like film is a conjuring trick. It's like, "Oh, my god, how are you going to do that in 90 minutes, as opposed to eight hours?! I've got so little time to do this!" It becomes an art form, in itself. Doing both helps you do each one.

I think the only thing that I really haven't done much in, and I haven't felt too attracted to, is romantic comedies.

With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.

I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.

I would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy.

Usually, in romantic comedies, you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know, just two attractive people and a good soundtrack.

I always admire people who do commercials because they have to put together a beginning, a middle, and an end in 30 seconds.

My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.

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.

The biggest challenge was trying to convey the story of the making of a film that isn't finished yet - and which won't be finished until the third film, The Return of the King, reaches our cinemas towards the end of 2003!

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

Our biggest challenge is always story. The story is the ultimate thing you try to tackle.

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

There are so many romantic comedies made, but very few dramas or love stories. And with a love story, you have to take time to develop three-dimensional characters.

I knew after 'Sarah Marshall' that my favorite genre is romantic comedy. Nothing is more satisfying than a great romantic comedy.

Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

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

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

Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.

I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.

No, actually 'The Host' was totally a palate-cleanser for me. I wanted to do something a little bit different than romantic love. Romantic love is in there, obviously, because I enjoy writing about that and living it a lot.

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