Elizabeth Banks Quotes

My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.

People didn't suddenly wake up one morning and unanimously say 'I'm fed up with midbudget dramas. I'm only going to see action tent poles from now on!'

You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them.

I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else.

I loved 'Truly Madly Deeply' and all those 1990s romcoms because you had great actresses like Juliet Stevenson and Emma Thompson starting out.

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

I want to do the romantic comedies. You know, the stuff that Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts or Reese Witherspoon would choose, of course.

Though rom-coms aren't necessarily my cup of tea, I was a huge fan of 'Notting Hill.'

I think when romantic comedies are done well, it's a great genre. 'When Harry Met Sally' is kind of a benchmark for me, but I'm very happy to admit that I love 'Pretty Woman.' I do! It's a great film, and so is 'Sixteen Candles.' I was a big John Hughes fan - still am. I have moments where I have to watch a Hughes film.

I love rom-coms, and I was bummed that they sort of stopped making them around the time I was old enough to be in them. But at the same time, I so respected the fact that the genre kind of needed an update. But you know, even when rom-coms were at their hey-day, very few people did it at the level of Nancy Meyers.

There's not a lot of good movies being made.

I do have a soft corner for rom-coms, but at the same time, I like drama, too.

Most movies are made today for teenage boys. Once in a while a good one comes along.

Entertainment and escapism - those are the bigger money-making films today.

Many of the top-grossing movies of all time are science fiction.

I love romantic comedies so much.

'The Book of Love' is the kind of James L. Brooks mainstream movie that the majors are ignoring.

Financiers don't support their directors to cast properly. They don't have the vision of an artist. They're casting to spreadsheets, and it's making movies very mediocre. The movie business used to just be called the movies. Now it should be the business movies.

The big money goes to kids and young men - big tent-pole movies, which are expensive but have a great return.

Rom-coms have been one of my favorite genres of movies since I can remember. My favorite movie of all-time is 'Four Weddings and a Funeral,' and then 'When Harry Met Sally,' and 'Annie Hall' is top five.

Women drive box office.

American movies are the most popular movies everywhere, and it is true that the quality is far from uniformly terrific.

The distribution systems and the cinemas have adopted to the blockbusters, and they now get their main income from selling popcorn, and if you don't make a film that sells popcorn, it's very hard to get it out there.

I don't think there has been a huge shift. Most of the films still focus on Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Akshay Kumar, etc. The percentage of films that have someone like a Kangana Ranaut shining in it is really low.

Usually, people think that award movies are hard to break.