The problem with romantic comedies is you know the ending by the poster. So they're not movies you can keep doing over and over again expect satisfaction somehow.
I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.
A lot of times, especially with TV, I would get these scripts, and I'm like, 'Oh, they want me to be the good-looking guy who's a little bit of a rascal.' It's just boring.
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Television has raised writing to a new low.
People love cliches. If you can give people cliches, that's very good TV, then.
If one of my romantic-comedy colleagues had written and directed 'Love Actually,' they would have been torn limb from limb. I thought it was awful, contrived, dreadful. I could see every twist and turn. I thought it was despicable. It was the writing that got me.
Generally, screenplays suck.
Even the best novels have their share of stinker lines.
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
