Mike Newell Quotes

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

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

I get a lot of dramas, but I'd like to do a romantic comedy type of movie; that'd be a nice step for me. No more screaming or running or shooting... for one movie where I can just be in love with a boy.

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

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.

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

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

I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love.

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

For me, the romantic comedies I love are the ones that pay homage to the genre, but also find their ways to twist it and tweak it.

I didn't just dip my toe into the pool of romantic comedies.

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before.

If it was a great script and a great character, I would love to do a romantic comedy.

I would love to do some crazy action or even a real romantic comedy. I think that would be really exciting.

I would say 80% of the scripts I get are dramas and not comedies or romantic comedies, which is funny because that's what I do every week.

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 watch 'The Notebook.' I love romantic movies. I love romantic comedies.

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 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.

When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.

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.

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.

The strangest thing about writing a sitcom, is never knowing if it will become anything but words on a page.

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