Genre Quotes - Page 14

• I am not married to any particular genre. I am more interested in projects that capture my imagination and move me in a way that I can spend a year of my life working on it.

  Oscar Torre

  Moving, Years, Imagination

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Well, I think there was a time when I first started that there was such a thing called 'a woman's film' and there were certain scripts that women would make. But I think that's changed a lot now. I think that if a woman director walks into a room with a script, it doesn't really matter what the subject matter is, or the genre is, so long as the financiers feel that the woman has the skills to make the film.

  Gurinder Chadha

  Thinking, Genre Is, Skills

  "It's A Wonderful Afterlife - Gurinder Chadha interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• In America, even the critics - which is a pity - tend to genre-ize things. They have a hard time when genres get mixed. They want to categorize things. That's why I love Wes Anderson's films and the Coen Brothers, because you don't know what you're going to get, and very often you get something that you don't expect and that's just what a genre's not supposed to do.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Brother, Hard Times, America

  Interview with Anisse Gross, therumpus.net. August 17, 2012.

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• I think there are certain tenets set in place for all different types on genres. For thrillers, women usually die first. I can't say exactly why, and it's kind of a bummer... But I also can't explain why the wallflower girl in the romantic comedy always gets the guy in the end. That's just the way those movies go.

  Katie Aselton

  Girl, Thinking, Guy

  "Interview with Katie Aselton – Director and Star of Black Rock". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. June 4, 2013.

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• When I walk in the door sometimes, I'm already an anomaly. Because I'm working in a genre that African-American's don't typically engage in.

  Kevin Grevioux

  Doors, African American, Anomalies

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When you write a scene where somebody is afraid of something you instantly go to decades of genre cinema: horror, suspense, and thrillers. Those are very cinematic genres, when you shoot a close-up of someone and you can see fear in the person's face, or anticipation, or some kind of anxiety, it's a very cinematic image.

  Kleber Mendonca Filho

  Writing, Anxiety, Faces

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I wrote lots of scripts that never got made and they were terrible. I thought they were good at the time. You can't write two scripts and expect your career to take off. Keep writing. Be you. Be original. A lot of people go for a genre, which is fine if you can do that really well, but we all have such layered histories. We all come from a unique background. Write about your past, write about you. Or make stuff up, but make it about something that really matters.

  Nicole Holofcener

  Writing, Unique, Past

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Horror I appreciate is one of the few genres that can wind the audience up and make them pay attention. I kind of like that. It's one of the few genres that can be very manipulative.

  Bruce Campbell

  Wind, Appreciate, Attention

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• I don't care about the genre so much. I'm good with horror, but I like other genres, too.

  Bruce Campbell

  Care, Horror, I Don't Care

  "Ash vs Evil Dead": Bruce Campbell Talks Blood, Sidekicks, and Hating Ash’s Car". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 31, 2015.

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• I do like the idea of doing something different, maybe doing something that's more like a genre film. And there are certain actors that I'd like to work with that would go along with working with a bigger budget.

  Joe Swanberg

  Ideas, Different, Actors

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• I watched a lot of cooking shows when I was younger on PBS and TLC and those channels. It's a very cool genre of television.

  Thu Tran

  Pbs, Cooking, Television

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I do teach fiction and non-fiction, and usually I'm interested in works that confuse genre, but I'm very new to teaching creative writing, I don't have an MFA, or a PhD, I tend to approach it just through my own practice.

  Kate Zambreno

  Teaching, Writing, Practice

  "The naming is a political act, the writing is a political act, a revolt against disappearance". Interview with Noah Charney, logger.believermag.com. November 3, 2014.

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• I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.

  Ben Lerner

  Literary Genre, Dying, Fiction

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• No matter what the genre, I want to see me and my friends. I want to see reality. I want to see what we're really like. I loved 'Bridesmaids'. I thought it was the most honest portrayal of female friendship in such a long time.

  Drew Barrymore

  Reality, Long, Matter

  Interview with Becky Kirsch, www.popsugar.com. November 6, 2015.

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• I feel like what's most important for painting - which has been hierarchically on the top for a really long time in terms of what is considered fine art, by comparison with something like a comic book or what's considered low art - is that painting should open up laterally to include other cultures and things that don't immediately resonate as a painting but are obviously of equal contribution to the genre.

  Laura Owens

  Art, Book, Other Cultures

  Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

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• It was at our library that I found Nancy Drew and fell in love with the genre. I've been grateful ever since for those tolerant, book-loving librarians who allowed a child like me to read what I wanted to read.

  Nancy Pickard

  Children, Book, Grateful

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• I have been blessed to have been working since I was 11. I think horror is an underrated genre. When done really well like in 'The Ruins', it pays homage to some of the stuff I really love in the '70s and incurs some of that energy the fanbase really wants to see.

  Jonathan Tucker

  Blessed, Thinking, Done

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• A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Kings, Book, Voice

  "Carlos Ruiz Zafón's top 10 20th-century gothic novels" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2010.

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• Marshall Jevons is the pioneer for integrating economics and detective fiction, and The Mystery of the Invisible Hand is another fine effort in this genre.

  Tyler Cowen

  Hands, Invisible Hand, Effort

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• Good writing is good writing no matter what genre you're writing in, and I believe that there are only a handful of fundamental craft tools that are essential for any genre-including nonfiction.

  Georgia Heard

  Believe, Writing, Essentials

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• Anime has been good to me. I made and continue to make very little money at it, but the undying, feverish loyalty of the fans of the genre has been such a life-changing influence for me that I wanted to do everything I possibly could to help give something back to them.

  Steven Blum

  Loyalty, Life Changing, Anime

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• I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater.

  Joseph Gatt

  Different, Soundtracks, Genres Of Music

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

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• Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at the same time, I want precision. And in order to be precise about stuff, you have to get personal. Symbolism is very boring.

  Linn Ullmann

  Symbolism, Order, Perspective

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• I just want to see a good movie. Fortunately, good movies come in all sorts of genres.

  Colin Cunningham

  Good Movie, Want

  "Colin Cunningham Talks FALLING SKIES Season 2, the Fun of Being the Antagonist, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 07, 2012.

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• Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning.

  Douglas Lain

  Dark, Sides, Fiction

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