Genre Quotes - Page 29

• I have to say I've been lucky in that way in that I've been able to go from different films and different genres with different challenges.

  Amy Adams

  Challenges, Way, Different

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• The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.

  Amy Adams

  Age, Together, Actors

  "Amy Adams On Set Interview THE MUPPETS". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 20, 2011.

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• I love seeing when actors go from one genre to the next because I feel like most of them can pull it off.

  Malin Akerman

  Actors, Next, Feels

  "Malin Akerman Exclusive Interview HAPPYTHANKYOUMOREPLEASE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 2, 2011.

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• I really like the old stuff that I cut my musical teeth on, and I loved it when the industry was just like that, without really a genre. Today, country radio's more aimed at a demographic than a genre. It just softens everything.

  Gary Allan

  Country, Cutting, Musical

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• Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.

  Margaret Atwood

  Borders, Stuff, Flow

  "Narrative Magazine’s Friday Feature: Margaret Atwood Interview, In Which She Talks About “A Handmaid’s Tale”, “The Year Of The Flood” And Having Fun". Interview with Jo Scott-Coe, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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• There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Mediocre

  Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. October 17, 2011.

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• My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

  Iain Banks

  Important, Fiction, Revolution

  Interview with Ken Livingstone, www.newstatesman.com. September 17, 2009.

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• Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.

  Beck

  Growing Up, Lines, Comedy

  "Catching Up With Beck". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 02, 2010.

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• I listen to music every day for study reasons, and I confess that I have very little knowledge of what is going on in the hit parades around the world. I have no prejudices for any kind of music genre, and I listen with pleasure to many songs on the radio that my children already know of by heart, while I hear them practically for the first time.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Song, Children, Heart

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• I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore.

  Danny Boyle

  America, Film, Cop

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• I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Jobs, Thinking, Hip Hop

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• The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.

  John le Carre

  Struggle, Stories, World

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• That's also why comedy and horror are my two favorite genres of film to write, because you get these outbursts of emotion from people, laughter and shock, and it's really thrilling, and I like to be thrilled.

  Diablo Cody

  Laughter, Writing, Two

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• I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.

  Park Chan-wook

  Limits, Scripts, Fit

  "Director Park Chan-Wook Says Another English-Language Picture In The Works, ‘Snowpiercer’ Almost Finished & Talks His Dream Genres" by Drew Taylor, www.indiewire.com. February 28, 2013.

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• Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.

  Ted Dekker

  Mirrors, Dangerous World, Issues

  Interview with Dick Donahue, www.publishersweekly.com. April 20, 2009.

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• I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Thinking, Way, Comedy

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• I think the best comedic actors don't play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because it's real. Playing the genre is the worst thing you can do - it's embarrassing.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Real, Thinking, Play

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• Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre.

  Junot Diaz

  Narrative, Might, Increase

  "This Week in Fiction: Junot Diaz" by Cressida Leyshon, www.newyorker.com. May 27, 2012.

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• 'Drown' was always a hybrid book. It's connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the reader to decide which genre they thought the book belonged to more - story, novel, neither, both.

  Junot Diaz

  Book, Stories, Novel

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• I am flattered that they think that many people would enjoy my work. I don't approach any genre a different way than I may approach another one. I treat every role I do like a role worthy of applying whatever kind of tactic, process and talent I have.

  Vin Diesel

  Thinking, People, May

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• I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.

  Lena Dunham

  Thinking, Done, Comedy

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• Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.

  Roger Ebert

  Challenges, Tragedy, Needs

  Roger Ebert (2016). “The Great Movies IV”, p.90, University of Chicago Press

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• I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong.

  Roger Ebert

  Research, Found, Prove Me Wrong

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• With Australian audiences, there's a certain level of education - as far as how much access and exposure they have to music from various genres. So when you do 'Big Day Out' and there are all these different musical acts, you see the same people in your crowd that were there for a completely different artist.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Artist, People, Musical

  MTV Interview, www.mtv.com.au. March 4, 2011.

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• So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.

  Lady Gaga

  Hate, Provocative

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