Genre Quotes - Page 12

• Our fathers were actually business partners in the same real-estate firm, and we got together and thought, How can we get a movie together and get distribution and create a new movie genre? We started by making satires of commercials.

  David Zucker

  Business, Father, Real

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

  Dan Brown

  Needs, Fiction, Research

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• I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces.

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Age, Different, Pieces

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers.

  John Connolly

  Moving, Self Harm, Writing

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• Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.

  Michael Moore

  War, Documentaries, Filmmaker

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• Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a horror story.

  John Carpenter

  Horror Stories, Danger, Reactions

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Horror has been a genre since the beginning of cinema, all the way back to the days of silent films. I don't think it will ever go away because it's so universal. Humor doesn't always travel to other countries, but horror does.

  John Carpenter

  Country, Thinking, Silent Films

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It [horror genre] never dies. It just keeps getting re­invented and it always will. Horror is a universal language; we're all afraid. We're born afraid, we're all afraid of things: death, disfigurement, loss of a loved one. Everything that I'm afraid of, you're afraid of and vice versa. So everybody feels fear and suspense.

  John Carpenter

  Loss, Horror Genre, Vices

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A long time ago, I stopped trying to look at projects as genre exercises.

  Ron Howard

  Exercise, Long, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the audience, and I no longer look at them as experiments or genre exercises at all.

  Ron Howard

  Character, Exercise, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore can't be seen as literature.

  Stephen King

  Ideas, Fiction, Literature

  Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

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• There is a little bit of a head vs. heart kind of battle that happens sometimes with the song. There's the goose bump thing, where the melody or whatever it is just gets you and you don't know why. Sometimes, it's in a genre that you didn't think you liked and, all of a sudden, the song hits you and you just say, wow, I feel the hairs on the back of my neck. I love this song.

  Josh Groban

  Song, Heart, Thinking

  "Josh Groban indulges his inner musical theater geek with ‘Stages’". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 7, 2015.

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• I'm always so pleased when I can get a song or be given a song that really speaks to me and I can interpret, but if given the opportunity to really write from the heart and try and bring some personality to whatever this genre would be, it was a great opportunity for me.

  Josh Groban

  Song, Writing, Heart

  "Singer Josh Groban". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 8, 2010.

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• Movies and acting are so much fun. I love playing different characters and doing different genres. It's all still very interesting to me.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Fun, Character, Interesting

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I do also think it eludes genre a bit - not in any groundbreaking way but you can't quite call it a comedy and you can't quite call it a romantic anything. It's not quite a drama either really. But it has elements of all those things.

  Colin Firth

  Drama, Thinking, Elements

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• They said: "Make it in this amount of time and go for it now..." Which is why I was suddenly ambushed and we all found ourselves doing it. I suspect this wasn't quite recognisable in its genre to give people the confidence just to throw money at it.

  Colin Firth

  People, Giving, Found

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I felt slightly snobby about the genre. My pre-conceived notion of the comic book world had been: "Oh, that's nothing that I need to worry about!"

  Matthew William Goode

  Book, Worry, Needs

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think every filmmaker wants... I don't know about every filmmaker. I certainly want my films to just exist. I want them to be judged for what they are and analyzed, accepted, criticized, whatever you want to call it, on their own terms, not as part of some mall-cop genre.

  Jody Hill

  Thinking, Want, Film

  Interview with The A.V. Club, www.avclub.com. April 10, 2009.

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• I'm a big fan; I like all sorts of genres. I do like an occasion to just switch my brain off and enjoy some mindless carnage.

  Edgar Wright

  Brain, Fans, Bigs

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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• There are things that are about the entire genre, so it's weird when you look on Wikipedia and people say, "The scene where Angel grabs his fist is from Superman II," and you're thinking, "Ummm, no it's not." Or, "There's a shot from Matrix Revolutions." I'm thinking, "I've only seen Matrix Revolutions once, and will never watch it ever again."

  Edgar Wright

  Angel, Thinking, People

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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• In a weird way, riffing on genres is kind of a reaction to formula. When you watch so much of the programmers and the films that you just think you've seen before, it's kind of going back to the well in terms of trying to conjure up the spirit of what made you excited about films in the first place.

  Edgar Wright

  Thinking, Genre Is, Trying

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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• Rather than thinking in terms of a specific genre or specific kind of thing, I hope I can just stay relatively small and keep making my movies. If I can keep writing them and making them, I'll be happy.

  Rian Johnson

  Writing, Thinking, Kind

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. April 19, 2006.

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• There are certain types of genres that are impossible in China. Ghost stories, something too graphic, too violent, and of course if it's too political. Other than that, it will be fine.

  Wong Kar-wai

  Ghost Stories, Political, Impossible

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Hip-hop wasn't actually the genre that made me want to make sound, and I couldn't actually really pinpoint what genre it was. Growing up, my favorite music was my parents' music, and eventually I started to develop some taste of my own.

  Grieves

  Growing Up, Hip Hop, Parent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.

  Benjamin Percy

  Fantasy Novels, Spy, Horror

  "The Infectious Benjamin Percy". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 6, 2013.

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