Genre Quotes - Page 8

• Movies serve many purposes, and I've visited many of those genres, from the most light, frivolous comedy that is just trying to make you laugh, to movies that explore the most complicated side of the human soul. As an actor, I play all of those things, and I still like it.

  Antonio Banderas

  Light, Play, Laughing

  "Antonio Banderas Talks THE SKIN I LIVE IN and PUSS IN BOOTS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 12, 2011.

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• I love the unexpected and I think that's why documentary is an attractive genre to me because you don't know where it's going to go, so I tend to involve that as much as possible in the production process.

  Seth Gordon

  Thinking, Documentaries, Unexpected

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• My genre-hopping has caused problems with marketing and sales departments over the years, because they need to know where to position a book with the booksellers.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Book, Years, Marketing

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• The range of genre that we is very diverse, which makes for a fun and multi-dimensional show, but creating something that flows, depending on what kind of vibe the show is going to be [loud dive bar, small theatre, festival] is a bit of an art a haphazard art at times.

  Sarah Burton

  Art, Fun, Creating

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• Basically, there were three aspects of dub that influenced dubstep. The most important was playing the instrumental versions of vocal garage tracks, which was a little like what dub was to reggae - the instrumental of a full vocal.The second was dub as a methodology, which, for me, is apparent in all dance music: manipulating sound to create impossible sonic spaces using reverb, echo and such. The third is the influence of the genre called dub. (It became a cliché actually, through sampling old Jamaican films and soundtracks, and adding vocal samples.)

  Kode9

  Echoes, Space, Track

  "The VICE Oral History of Dubstep". www.vice.com. June 23, 2015.

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• It's great that there are so many different kinds of books for kids and adults to choose from. I think an eclectic reader is the best kind of reader to be, which would be why I was always so satisfied to hear that kids read the Baby-Sitters Club books and then went on and discovered other authors and other genres.

  Ann M. Martin

  Baby, Book, Kids

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• My norm for watching scary movies, what I love about it, is when they work and they scare me, which is not that often I'm afraid. The more you know the genre, your taste becomes a little more rarefied and you take a very particular route to the type of movies you like in the genre. But I still get scared.

  Katie Holmes

  Scary, Scare, Littles

  "Guillermo del Toro and Katie Holmes Interview 'Don't Be Afraid of The Dark'". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 22, 2011.

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• I'm a big fan of the '80s fantasy genre that I grew up watching, movies like "Krull" and "Clash of the Titans" and "Time Bandits" and all that stuff.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Fans, Stuff, Fantasy

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• I would love to compose more fantasy music, whether it's for a film or a game. That genre has so much opportunity for harmonic experimentation, not to mention all the interesting instruments that become available when composing music for alien species and other worlds.

  Jason Graves

  Opportunity, Other Worlds, Games

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• The actors are different, although I didn't set out to be different. My inspiration came from people like Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence and Will Smith. The genre is what it is. My inspiration was drawn from great movies like 48 Hours, Bad Boys and Rush Hour.

  Tracy Morgan

  Inspiration, Boys, Genre Is

  "Tracy Morgan ‘Cop Out’ Interview with Kam Williams". newsblaze.com. February 22, 2010.

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• I grew up really loving horror movies and genre movies. I was a big fan of Universal Monsters movies, read Famous Monsters magazine. I built monster models and creature effects...

  Gregory Nicotero

  Magazines, Monsters, Fans

  "Brains, Blood, and BBQ: Welcome to Greg Nicotero’s Zombie School". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. March 2014.

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• Animation can be a full spectrum of different storytelling techniques and different genres. I think it's sad that there is only one audience that the studios are aiming for and that's the kid audience. It's really tragic that they don't' make films for older people.

  Bill Plympton

  Kids, Thinking, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm very rarely interested in genres. As long as I feel I can put my DNA out there in the ideology, it works for me.

  Tarsem Singh

  Dna, Long, Feels

  Source: collider.com

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• I was voted Most Humorous in my senior class in high school, and I was a fan of comedy, my whole life. I never got into the horror genre, and action was fine, but I just loved comedy. Any comedy I could get my hands on, I would. I watched Saturday Night Live religiously. I've just been a fan of comedy, my whole life.

  Rob Riggle

  Senior, Humorous, School

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a big horror fan. I'm a genre fan. I like to make these movies. They're my favorite kinds of movies to make.

  Amber Heard

  Fans, Kind, Horror

  "Amber Heard Talks THE WARD and NBC’s THE PLAYBOY CLUB". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 7, 2011.

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• Each form of the acting is different. I think it keeps your mind active. TV, film and theater are different disciplines, as are independent films, opposed to studio films. There are differences in the size and the genre, or a period drama as opposed to a contemporary drama, or the types of characters.

  Luke Evans

  Drama, Character, Independent

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm very open to all different genres because I'm a very open-minded girl.

  Gal Gadot

  Girl, Different, Open Minded

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always wanted to do a movie that deals with America's horrific past with slavery, but the way I wanted to deal with it is - as opposed to doing it as a huge historical movie with a capital H - I thought it could be better if it was wrapped up in genre.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Past, America, Historical

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• Performance capture is a genre of acting which is not going to go away, it's going to proliferate more and more. I'm passionate about it, and I love it. It's the most liberating tool an actor has, because you are not limited by your own physicality, look, or color of your eyes.

  Andy Serkis

  Eye, Color, Going Away

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• You've got to be a good reader. So whatever genre that you're interested in, read a lot of books about it and it's better than any kind of writing class you'll ever take. You will absorb techniques and then in a lot of cases you can just start writing using the style of the book or the author that you admire and then your own style will emerge out of that. Be a diligent reader and then try to write seriously, professionally and approach everything in writing in a professional way.

  Homer Hickam

  Book, Writing, Class

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

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• When critics or people judge, I think it's harder to make a commercial, pop movie than it is to make a pretentious art film. It's harder to reach millions of people and satisfy them and make them happy. These films kind of get ghettoized, this genre because there are so many big, big movies that are such big hits, but aren't any good. The audiences, they're not judging the style of the director, or the execution of the film. They're just looking to be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.

  Brett Ratner

  Art, Reality, Thinking

  "Chris Tucker and Brett Ratner". Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 7, 2007.

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• I fell in love with the classical crossover genre when I was on AGT. I found out that I could use the microphone to establish a deeper intimacy with the audience. I did not portray an opera character; I was my true self. I would sing a four-to-five minute piece for the audience and then I could talk to them and say "Hi" to them! I would not need to act out scenes where my character was dying from tuberculosis or killing somebody else on stage, I could have a nice conversation with them.

  Barbara Padilla

  Nice, Character, Self

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. August 01, 2015.

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• There is a real problem with the lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can't really identify with. When you see the same thing, over and over again, and it seems not to speak of you and your heritage and your culture, it leaves you out of this world, a little bit. It gives a certain social distance with your world.

  Djimon Hounsou

  Growing Up, Real, Distance

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• I had an idea for a medical conspiracy thriller. Since it was non-horror, I didn't want the publishers and editors bringing a lot of baggage - my history as a genre writer in the SF and horror fields, for instance - to the novel when they read it. I wanted them to consider the book solely on its own merits. So I called myself Colin Andrews. I was tired of seeing my books at floor level. Not that Herman Wouk and Phyllis Whitney and William Wharton are bad company, but I wanted to be up at eye level for a change, where people with bad backs could get a chance to see my books.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Book, Eye, Tired

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• I don't just want to do something that is purely stuck in a genre box. I would like to have the kind of autonomy...

  George Nolfi

  Want, Kind, Boxes

  "Writer-Director George Nolfi Exclusive Interview THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 26, 2011.

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