Serious Films Quotes

Film is a wonderful thing and it can be so many different things. I don't want to turn my back on any of the different ways movies can be. I love the movies. I love going to the films. I like very serious films, I love foreign films, and I love big, fun movies - as long as they're well made and they've got good scripts. That's the most important thing.

I think there are few films out there that take motherhood seriously.

It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture.

In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas.

When I became a film-maker, all my favourite films, they weren't comedies.

Obviously, I'm attracted to heavier movies.

I never really thought of comedy as a career. My goal was, when I moved to New York, I was going to write serious films.

Serious films for grown-ups - 'Michael Clayton,' 'In the Valley of Elah,' 'A Mighty Heart' - these are big Hollywood films, but they have substance and craft and really beautiful performances.

I thought I was going to be a serious screenwriter and produce serious films. It was going to be 'American Beauty' and very important work.

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

I wrote, I think, half a dozen films that were completely out of genre. Comedies, love stories, even one serious film about Vietnam, and we couldn't get backing for any of it. And we both sort of drifted from making, at that time, serious money on Last House to going through it all in the course of almost three years and only getting offers to do something scary again.

The most serious film can be the most fun. The one that's supposed to be fun can be the most serious.

I don't have any limitations that I only want to do serious films. I am trying to break that image but not very consciously.

People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.

I maintain that no movie can be funny enough. I mean even the most serious, even the most intense movie and I know enough about life to know in those dark moments inevitably someone will say something funny and I will be part of the whole experience.