Genre Quotes - Page 28

• When you think of dog movies, that genre, Old Yeller is sort of the benchmark and you hope that you can raise your game up to that.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Dog, Thinking, Games

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• As actors, we have that in common that we go for slightly out-of-the-box or genre stuff. They're great when they work, but they don't always work. Genre stuff is really hard to pull off, as any fans of it know.

  Jason O'Mara

  Fans, Actors, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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• There are artists that are using computers in all genres - Kendrick Lamar's music is electronic-made, and Taylor Swift is the same thing. There's a lot of pop music, underground music, and music for films made with computers. In that sense, it's not going to go away.

  Skrillex

  Artist, Going Away, Computer

  "Skrillex Talks About the Making of His Sci-Fi Psychological Thriller 'Red Lips' Video". Interview with Jeremy Gordon, pitchfork.com. November 30, 2015.

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• I'm always trying to pop up in different genres, what interests me. Sometimes I just like to throw myself into new situations to see what it feel like.

  Dylan McDermott

  Always Trying, Different, Sometimes

  Source: collider.com

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• The funny thing about me is I move from genre to genre, but I essentially shoot all the movies the same way.

  James Mangold

  Moving, Funny Things, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I feel like movies should stick to a genre and give the audience what they want, and then surprise them with the unexpected, and not just do the same thing you've always seen.

  Paula Patton

  Giving, Sticks, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• There's a level where the themes of a film are very relevant to me and also the idea of finding out how relevant one genre is to another. I think that westerns and samurai films and superhero films have a lot in common. It's just that the scale of the visuals in tentpole films can sometimes overwhelm the drama.

  James Mangold

  Drama, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a self-confessed genre nerd. I'm a very serious actor, but a genre nerd, all the same.

  Penelope Mitchell

  Self, Nerd, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I think the most important thing about dance music is the connection. If you put 80,000 people together, no one knows each other, and once the music starts, everyone loves each other. That doesn't happen with a lot of genres. If you go to a hip-hop club, it's not like when one songs comes on that everyone suddenly loves each other.

  Afrojack

  Song, Thinking, People

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• I don't exist to build a genre. I exist to build the Kingdom.

  LeCrae

  Kingdoms

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• The 1980's witnessed a new dance genre in New York City and Los Angeles. Slam Dancing was perhaps a way for adolescent males to deal with the stressors of maturation, aggressive personal feelings, and violence in the society at large. Through dancing, the youths expressed raw power and rage while achieving euphoria, enhanced self-concept, and a healthy fatigue.

  Judith Lynne Hanna

  New York, Cities, Self

  Judith Lynne Hanna (2006). “Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress”, p.175, Rowman Altamira

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• The hardest thing, as a producer, is to find a director who does the picture for all the right reasons, and not just because they know it's successful or that they can do a good job, but in their bones, they love that genre.

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura

  Jobs, Successful, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• This is a tried and true genre directed by a guy who's famous for character work. This could take a genre picture and lift it and elevate it. That was my thinking.

  Michael Chiklis

  Character, Thinking, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• Why does one never hear of government funding for the preservation and encouragement of comic strips, girlie magazines and TV soap operas? Because these genres still hold the audience they were created to amuse and instruct.

  John Updike

  Encouragement, Government, Opera

  1985 In the New York Review of Books, 18 Jul.

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• Deadlines comes as a surprise....superb: a new genre, in fact, combining the pleasures of list-making with that of last-minute eaves-dropping.

  Alberto Manguel

  Lasts, Lists, Facts

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• Trombone virtuoso and innovative composer, Papo combines the best of jazz and Latin music to create a genre that is unique and wild. He's redefined Latin jazz!

  Michael Brecker

  Latin, Unique, Jazz

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• Life isn't divided into genres

  Alan Moore

  Divided

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• One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Different, Decay

  Introduction to "Die Propyläen" journal, 1798.

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• Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.

  Vanna Bonta

  Literature, Be Good, Good Literature

  "Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview". Interview with Laurel van der Linde, 2007.

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• The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.

  Candace Kita

  Fun, Book, Kids

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

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• When people say, Your music was the music of the Seventies, I say, So was discoteque. The Seventies was also the highest peak of heavy metal. Pick a genre - they were all alive.

  Gerry Beckley

  People, Alive, Heavy Metal

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• I think as far as the action genre goes, I like when it has a sense of humor. I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.

  Maggie Grace

  Girl, Thinking, Action

  "Maggie Grace Talks LOCKOUT, TWILIGHT, TAKEN 2, DECODING ANNIE PARKER, and More". Interview, collider.com. April 10, 2012.

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• I actually prefer to work in as many different genres as possible as often as possible because I actually think the best way to be inspired and avoid any writers block or things like that is actually to be able to go from a comedy to an action to a horror to a adventure, that actually makes it easy for me to start over and get new ideas, and it keeps things interesting.

  Christopher Lennertz

  Block, Adventure, Thinking

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• 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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