I've always loved... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.
I made a very good living as a bad writer. I wrote a lot of comedies, 'Diff'rent Strokes,' 'Facts of Life,' while all my friends were doing the good shows, like 'Cheers,' but I loved it because I got to be a working writer in Hollywood.
Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.
The thing that is incredibly helpful is that we screen the movies and we ask the audience if they like it or not and we ask a lot of questions and do testing on the movies. For comedies, at least, it's very helpful. If they're not laughing and they don't say that they loved it, then I have screwed up.
I want to do more action adventures and more romantic comedies.
With comedies, it's been very gratifying to be able to clock in, laugh all day, and then clock out.
We need comedies in the world! We need to laugh, it's all so hard.
I've enjoyed the time I've had working on films. I've enjoyed television movie-of-the-week format. I've enjoyed the few comedies that I've done, and I've enjoyed one-hour television.
I have always been intrigued with singing and I actually started my career in musical comedies.
Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.
Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.
I tend to play strong characters and people just assume that I would want to play romantic comedies, which I would love to do, but there are other women that do it so great and they maybe couldn't do what I do, play the kind of characters that I play.
As it is, I have a limited range as an actor - light comedy. I have never been a fan of romantic comedies, and yet that is what I have ended up mostly doing.
I feel mindless comedies make you relax - there are times when I come from shooting and watch comedy shows; they really change my mood.
The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.
It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.
I prefer comedies when they come from a dark kind of place and have a reality to it.
Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.
There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.
Most of the comedies I've done have been rather farcical and extravagant.
The Westerns I like aren't really comedies. I'm drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.
For years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness.
I watch comedies most of the time. That's what I gravitate toward. But I think the kinds of roles people see me in are sort of the opposite of that. I'm not really sure why.
I've always wanted to do non-comedies. I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things.
I haven't really done a lot of comedies. I don't know why, because I really like them.
Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies.
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 definitely am a huge lover of comedy, and it's only through doing so many comedies that I've realised how much of an influence they've been on me.
'The Best Man' was my first feature film, and I didn't want to be known as a director who only does romantic comedies.
Playing roles that are intense and damaged has always come more easily to me than doing comedies or lighter stuff - that would be taking a huge risk for me.
I feel like I've done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of 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.
Sometimes I look at music as like movies. And so I feel like you can have your comedies, and you can have your dramas, and you can have your romances or whatever.
In a lot of comedies, they kind of take all the problems away from the women. They give her great clothes, great hair; she almost always owns an artisanal shop, like a cheese shop in Manhattan.
I've been really fortunate to do so many comedies and then so many dramatic roles and then television and movies and stuff like that.