Genre Quotes - Page 25

• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 don't have a problem with many uses of the word genre, just certain ones. I have the most trouble when these labels are used to prevent discussion, to prevent a work from being taken seriously as literature. When we say "genre," we generally mean "something crappy," something that would be sold in an airport.

  Michael Chabon

  Taken, Mean, Airports

  Interview with Elizabeth Benefiel, www.avclub.com. July 5, 2007.

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• I hate to see great works of literature ghettoized, whereas others that conform to the rules, conventions, and procedures of the genre we call literary fiction get accorded greater esteem and privilege. I also have a problem with how books are marketed, with certain cover designs and typefaces. They're often stamped with an identity that has nothing to do with their effect on the reader.

  Michael Chabon

  Hate, Book, Design

  Interview with Elizabeth Benefiel, www.avclub.com. July 5, 2007.

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• When you have so many projects to nurture, one or two get real excited and raise their hands. The reaction from it tells when it's time and where to go. I usually have about a half a dozen titles in development; researchers researching and people doing cover. I'm exploring musical vocabularies I want to explore, different genres, and constantly reading things.

  Frank Wildhorn

  Real, Reading, Hands

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 13, 2004.

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• Every time a new rock singer comes out they don't say, 'Are you the new John Lennon?' Every time a new rapper comes out, it's not, 'Are you the new Dre?' I am never sure why this sort of genre, the categorization is so strong. I have not earned the right to be called the young Sinatra, but give me time.

  Michael Buble

  Strong, Rapper, Rocks

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• I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre.

  Gemma Chan

  Horror, Enjoy, Rational

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• I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film I can't sit still.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Jumping, Lasts, Comedy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Horror movies scare me. I don't really watch them. I'm not a big horror genre fan. I like certain classic horror - like 'Alien', 'Jaws', 'The Exorcist', stuff like that.

  Katharine Isabelle

  Horror Genre, Scare, Fans

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• Whats fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.

  Steven Strait

  Fun, Character, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

  Andy Serkis

  Technology, Actors, Way

  "A Conversation with Andy Serkis". Interview with Tim Appelo, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 29, 2011.

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• The zombie threat is made worse by the fact that their victims then turn into the creature that attacked them. This too is similar to other monsters (werewolves and vampires) and also similar to the sub-genre of infection/plague films. In the case of zombies, however, this may carry a greater sense of dread and revulsion: vampires and werewolves can be seen as desirable, potent, intelligent, virile creatures whom one might like -- in some way at least -- to become; a mindless ghoul condemned to wander aimlessly across an empty, ruined earth seems much less attractive.

  Kim Paffenroth

  Intelligent, Ghouls, Zombie

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• Im not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. Theres good storytelling in all the genres, you know. I just want to tell good stories and do good work.

  Angela Bettis

  Want, Stories, Storytelling

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• I would agree Paul is a sci-fi genre movie. And a road movie.

  Nick Frost

  Sci Fi, Agree, Road Movie

  "Q&A With Nick Frost and Simon Pegg: Pockets of "Us-es" Everywhere". Interview with Ethan Gilsdorf, www.wired.com. March 18, 2011.

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• I never even considered comedy genre as something to embrace or move away from.

  Edward Norton

  Moving, Comedy, Embrace

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• Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Interesting, Example, Castles

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

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