Lighthearted Movies Quotes

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

It's too bad that there aren't as many light comedies around in the movies as there were when I was making pictures like 'The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer.' The boys are just not writing them. Many writers are more serious now than they used to be, and that's showing up in all phases of entertainment.

There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.

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

In the past, the movies I've made are perceived as dark, but a lot of comedies are way darker.

I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.

The Farrelly brothers make movies the way you imagine a movie set would be when you're a kid - fun all the time.

I'm excited to see a new age of rom-coms, and especially teen romantic comedies, because when I was younger, I was watching 'Harry Potter' and 'Hunger Games' and stuff like that. I loved those movies, but they are a little bit heavy. We didn't really get to have the lighthearted love stories.

I love films that make you feel good when you come out and, in my opinion, there's not enough of them these days.

I don't think German films have to be heavy or intellectual the way they sometimes used to be.