Genre Quotes - Page 15

• I can tell you as a fact that if you'd asked anyone in Hollywood one year before 'Pirates of the Caribbean' had come out, they'd have told you the pirate movie was a dead genre. And it's not that it's a dead genre. If you make a bad pirate movie, no one will want to see it. If you make a good one, everyone will want to see it.

  Dean Devlin

  Years, Pirate, Facts

  4 Copy quote

• Creatively I just enjoy challenging myself in different genres.

  Debra Messing

  Challenges, Different, Challenging Myself

  4 Copy quote

• It's not about what you get out but what you put into hip hop as a genre.

  Chuck D

  Hip Hop, Hips, Hops

  4 Copy quote

• Genre is a minimum security prison.

  David Shields

  Genre Is, Prison, Minimum

  Interview with Sean Carman, therumpus.net. March 7, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I make unpopular versions of popular things. I make a horror film and it's not a horror film. None of my genre movies function as genre movies.

  Mary Harron

  Horror, Film, Function

  Source: www.believermag.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• When people see the conventions, they think they're going to get the straightforward genre - I don't give them that and they get mad. People see that and they think I don't understand the conventions because I'm not a good filmmaker.

  Mary Harron

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: www.believermag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The good part of working in TV is it's like being a studio director in old Hollywood and approaching different genres. It's a chance to try out different styles.

  Mary Harron

  Style, Trying, Directors

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films.

  Mary Harron

  Art, Elements, Film

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I came from advertising. For me it's about protecting the director's vision. That's always the goal. There's keeping things on budget and on time and dealing with selling the movie so that to me is a focus. But also it's about serving the script. We are genre filmmakers, those are the films we love to make, so my perspective is a little different.

  Charles Roven

  Goal, Perspective, Focus

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Graphic novel genre become really quite popular. It's really a big screen film genre that they have successfully moved into the small screen.

  Dustin Clare

  Film, Bigs, Graphic Novels

  4 Copy quote

• I listen to the Mars Volta and Fiona Apple every day. I feel if you do write music, you write what you listen to, and you couldn't possibly write in another genre. So those are the two that I usually use.

  Christian Serratos

  Writing, Two, Apples

  "Exclusive: Twilight Saga Spotlights Human Actress Christian Serratos". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you put a tremendous amount of love into your work, as in any relationship, you can't know - you can only hope - that what you're offering will in some way be received. You shape your love to artistic demands, to the rigors of your genre. But still, it's a labor of love, and it's the nature of love that you must give it freely.

  Anne Michaels

  Offering, Giving, Demand

  15 Copy quote

• A scientific autobiography belongs to a most awkward literary genre. If the difficulties facing a man trying to record his life are great - and few have overcome them successfully - they are compounded in the case of scientists, of whom many lead monotonous and uneventful lives and who, besides, often do not know how to write . . .

  Erwin Chargaff

  Writing, Men, Literary Genre

  Erwin Chargaff (1978). “Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature”, p.61, Paul & Company Pub Consortium

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• 'Jazz Artist of the Century' would have to be a distinctive soloist and ensemble player, a composer, an arranger, a bandleader, and a driver; would have to span all the genres and periods of jazz; would have to have run her own label; [would] possess a deep spirituality, with grace and a sense of humor; and would have to have succeeded against all odds. Who else? Mary Lou Williams.

  Dave Douglas

  Running, Artist, Player

  9 Copy quote

• And our experience in England was that. It was a delight. I had never even been to England and I got to spend five months there in a beautiful estate and just party with these gorgeous men and women and poke fun at their beloved genre, which they all loved. We teased it, but it's so gentle, that you're still swept away the whole time.

  Jerusha Hess

  Beautiful, Fun, Party

  "Interview: Jerusha Hess and J.J. Feild of 'Austenland'". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. August 22, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Well, part of it is the general fascination with the Amish. It's an extremely popular genre and Beverly Lewis just happens to have the market cornered. She is the bestselling author in this genre. We had actually optioned another one of her Amish books, The Redemption of Sarah Cain. We retitled it Saving Sarah Cain and it did extremely well for Lifetime so we pursued more of her novels.

  Michael Landon, Jr.

  Book, Fascination, Cain

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Usually it's just material that resonates with me and I never know exactly what that's gonna be. And there's obviously a certain persuasion, if you will. It's dependent upon the fact that I'm known for certain genres. So, that influences my decision making as well. I mean I'd love to, for example, do an action thriller but there are a lot of very talented people doing that and so it would be very difficult for me to switch over to that genre. So, I do look for things that I know (will resonate with) my audience.

  Michael Landon, Jr.

  Mean, People, Decision

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a social commentator - like the great Victorians, a realist in his way. But he isn't at all like that. His genre is actually more like a fairy tale - weird transformations, long voyages from which people come back altered, parental mysteries, semi-magical twists.

  Martin Amis

  Genre Is, Long, People

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• I could not flourish in the Hollywood system because the first thing spoken about is "What genre is it?" and "Who's it for?" It's a very strange question to me; it's for human beings.

  Conor McPherson

  Genre Is, Hollywood, Firsts

  "Interview: Conor McPherson and Ciarán Hinds of ‘The Eclipse’". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.com. March 25, 2010.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I just have a gut feeling about something, if I really want to do it, if I'm excited about it, if I want to explore it. And that goes across all different sorts of genres.

  Maria Bello

  Feelings, Different, Want

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. June 10, 2011.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love the romantic comedy genre. It's a genre rich with many of the best movies ever made and I try to treat it with the respect that Shakespeare treated it with.

  Nicholas Stoller

  Trying, Comedy, Rich

  "Nicholas Stoller Talks ‘Five-Year Engagement’, Terrible Rom-Coms & ‘Muppets 2’". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. April 26, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love taking on challenges. I think one of the funnest things in acting is creating a character - wrapping yourself around a character and bringing him to life. I love a lot of different genres. I'm not a big horror guy by any means but I love the challenge. But the fifties and sixties is where I feel the most comfortable.

  Drew Waters

  Character, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To AMC's credit, I think what they saw was the show doesn't exist in the marketplace. They knew that there was a hunger for a martial arts show. They also knew that you have this strong tradition of martial arts cinema, so even though it's not branded by a novel or a comic book or an old movie or something, we do have the genre itself, which people love.

  Alfred Gough

  Art, Strong, Book

  Source: www.indiewire.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wouldn't necessarily consider myself the typical sci-fi genre fan. I do have a lot of sci-fi shows that I enjoy, but I wouldn't call it my favorite genre of all.

  Amanda Schull

  Typical, Fans, My Favorite

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought.

  Amanda Schull

  Fiction, Science Fiction, Forethought

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source