Top 30 Brad Hall Quotes

I like the compressed nature of the story telling.

Audiences know the form in their bones, they know that romantic comedies end in an uplifting way.

When I go to see theater, I’m consumed with professional jealousy.

I think the fact that I’m married to Julia, people like to take shots at me.

I can do a Green Day joke and people actually get it.

The theater was the place where I felt my first crush, and it’s where I got my first kiss.

In New York you can actually run into people on the street, unlike in California where you’re always in the car.

No one remembers this because it’s the whipping boy, but ‘The Single Guy‘ was very well-reviewed and watched, and then the central concept became attacked by the very people who were putting it on. And then the next thing you know you’re running in fear, and everyone stops being funny.

Marjorie Luke was funny and huge, or at least I remember her that way.

In New York you go to the coffee shop, have a bagel, walk down the street, get hassled, run into someone else. People just waltz into your world and it’s believable.

It’s nice to be able to sit down and have a discussion about something for more than four minutes, and not look at your watch and go, ‘Oh my God, I just spent $40,000 of HBO’s money.’

When you romanticize something so extraordinarily in the hopes that it will divert you from agony, you’re destined for a letdown.

The truth of the matter is that it’s not much less work to do a short than it is to do a feature. Particularly when you’re running around different countries.

TV shows about TV were taboo for a while.

It all depends what you look like. If you look like hell and walk down the street, they think you’re just another bum. If you’re being cool, you TV people don’t get recognized. But if you’re going to sign autographs and records, then you’ll have some trouble.

People are a lot more tolerant when they’re home watching TV and they’re looking for a laugh.

New York is just such a perfect place for romance.

You have to run, an awful lot, on instinct. Even on ‘Veep,’ it’s not like you get weeks of rehearsal to break out what’s going on in the scenes.

Audiences want to see people break rules for love, to challenge the fates for love.

It’s a really special skill to be able to pick up a phone the way that a human picks up a phone. It’s not as easy as you think.

If you’re on Thursday night at 8:30, because the history of that time slot has been so disastrous, there’s a hell of a lot of numbers pressure.

I mean, if you look at all the great romantic screwbally kind of movies from the ’30s and ’40s, they’re all in New York. Even ‘Sleepless in Seattle,’ a movie about Seattle, ends up in New York, of course. The whole country, even if they’ve never been to New York, knows about it… from the movies.

I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that I have an unbelievably beautiful, well-known wife. And the people who criticize me don’t.

Julia is one of the most loyal people who ever lived. Her best friend is her best friend from third grade, and her other best friends are her best friends from Northwestern. Once you’re a pal, you’re a pal for life with Jules. I’m not just flattering her because she‘s my wife.

Comics and actors come from such a wide variety of backgrounds and there’s a theory that all comedians had tortured youths.

Those regrets that I do have are, exclusively, not doing plays that I wish I had done.

I don’t have a lot of lifetime regrets, and very few show business regrets, surely.

Hugh Grant is really the perfect actor for romantic comedies. Anything he does is invariably charming.

I’ve had situations before where there are more people giving notes than there are writers on the show.

My first performance was as one of the orphans in ‘Oliver!’