“I'm so beyond genre, drama, comedies, I just want to do really good, interesting projects.” WantInterestingComedyDramaProjectsGenre Author:Patton Oswalt
“I'm happy to try any genre, from drama to comedy and anything in between. Although, to be fair, for most of my career, I've been at the mercy of what people are willing to put me in.” PeopleTryingCareersComedyWillingDramaFairsMercyGenre Author:Chris Pratt
“The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means.” MeanHas BeensArtMadeEndsExpressionDramaErrorsGenreOpera Book:Prose works Source: Prose works
“There's something about the sci-fi genre that gets an audience interested in it, so maybe you can take some risks that you couldn't, if you were just doing a drama. It lets you maybe reach a little further and surprise people a little bit more because there's still that little safety base of working on that genre that everybody loves.” PeopleIfsLittlesStillsBitsAudienceRiskDramaLittle BitSafetySurpriseGenreSci Fi Author:Rian Johnson
“The goal with me, and the way I challenge myself as an actor, is to go from genre to genre. I like that. A lot of actors always challenge themselves. But for me the challenge lies not only in getting better, but going from drama to comedy to action or whatever the case may be, and having a wide array of movies in terms of my filmography.” WayMayActionLyingActorsGoalTermChallengesCasesComedyDramaWideGenreGet Better Author:Dwayne Johnson
“The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you just go out and try to make one by putting on boots and jumping on a horse and riding off... If you don't have the material, the characters and the things to overcome and conflicts that give life to drama, you don't have it.” IfsGivingTryingBookCharacterStoriesMaterialsDramaConflictOvercomingHorseWesternGenreBootsRidingJumpingScreenplaysGenre Is Author:Clint Eastwood
“There is nothing I can't do writing in Fantasy. I can have romance, I can have mystery, I can have drama, I can have good characters - I can have everything you can do in any other genre... plus a dragon.” WritingI CanCharacterRomanceCan DoFantasyMysteryDramaGenreDragonsPlusGood Character Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“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.” ThinkingMindDifferentCharacterFilmFormDifferencesActingTvsTypeDisciplinePeriodsDramaTheaterIndependentSizeStudiosActiveContemporaryGenreIndependent Film Author:Luke Evans
“I try to take B genre movies and treat them as if they're A dramas. Get the cinematographers, get the actors to do an A drama, but it just happens to be about aliens or ghosts or crazy people, or killers, or whatever it is.” PeopleIfsTryingHappensActorsCrazyDramaTreatsGhostAliensGenreKillersCrazy PeopleCinematographers Author:M. Night Shyamalan
“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.” ThinkingWayBitsComedyDramaElementsGenreEludeGroundbreaking Author:Colin Firth
“I really like films and plays that cross over different genres. So I'd like to do something that you think is a drama and then you think is a supernatural thing and then becomes a drama again. That's very vague.” ThinkingDifferentPlayFilmDramaCrossesGenreVagueDifferent Genres Author:Romola Garai
“I probably shouldn't do a straight drama. I'd probably ruin it. I don't know. But, I'd love the opportunity to try. I'm sure that every kind of filmmaker feels that they can do other genres of film and want to, and I feel the same way.” KnowsWayWantFeelsTryingKindFilmOpportunityCan DoDramaRuinsGenreFilmmaker Author:Steve Pink
“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.” ThinkingIdeasSometimesFilmLevelsCommonDramaFindingsScalesGenreThemeVisualsRelevantSuperheroSamuraiGenre Is Author:James Mangold
“All the genres are so blended nowadays. There are lots of comedies out there that are more realistic than dramas, and some dramas out there that are so broad and wacky that they don't even pass for a broad, wacky comedy.” ComedyDramaGenreBroadsRealisticWacky Author:Madeline Zima
“I'd like to try different genres: comedy, period drama, rom-com, action.” TryingDifferentActionComedyPeriodsDramaGenreDifferent Genres Author:Nina Dobrev
“The book is about zombies, in that it is the over-arching theme, but what's going on is the story of these people and how these survivors deal. I think that's so much more of an interesting story, and that's what really gets and hooks these readers into the book and the show. It's a mix of fans of drama, fans of AMC, fans of horror and fans of Frank [Darabont]. It's a lot of people just coming together and realizing a genre doesn't have to be fixed in one specific detail.” PeopleThinkingBookStoriesShowsTogetherRealizingInterestingDealsFansReaderDramaHorrorDetailsGenreFixedThemeSurvivorFrankHookZombieComing TogetherInteresting Stories Author:Steven Yeun
“I don't stay in the genre because I just like all stories that have a smart hook in them and I can find a comic way through if it's a comedy or a suspenseful way through it if it's a drama.” IfsWayI CanStoriesComedyDramaSmartComicGenreHook Author:Jay Roach
“It's really hard to find just a simple character-driven drama, outside of a genre, that was available to direct, except for on TV.” HardCharacterSimpleTvsDramaDirectAvailableDrivenGenre Author:Marc Webb
“I ended up working on "Chicago Hope" and other things, but always with the idea that, eventually, I would want to take what I'd learned in character drama and try to apply that to the genre that I love, which is science fiction and "The Twilight Zone" type mysteries.” WantTryingIdeasCharacterFictionMysteryTypeDramaScience FictionGenreZoneChicagoTwilightTwilight Zone Author:Remi Aubuchon
“At its core, 'Heroes' is an ensemble character drama with genre elements.” CharacterHeroDramaElementsCoreGenreEnsemble Author:Masi Oka
“I really like the "two is better than three" line. People ask me is this drama or comedy? I just think the more colors you have to a film the better. The more genres, the more people will like it. I like relating to the whole general speaking public. The script itself is 99 pages but the novel it is based on is 600. I had to leave a lot of stuff out of the script. I had a limitation of what I could present on the big screen.” PeopleThinkingTwoWholeBigsFilmThreeAsksStuffLinesNovelComedyColorDramaPagesScriptsScreensLimitationGenreAsk MeBig Screen Author:Tommy Wiseau
“As for whether genre considerations influence what I write, they don't at all, but I might sell more books if they did. The Night Journal is a hodge-podge of historical fiction, western, mystery, and contemporary domestic drama. It doesn't settle into a specific market, reviewers have a hard time describing it, and sometimes it gets classified weirdly in bookstores. But from a writer's standpoint, I like that it's hard to categorize.” IfsWritingBookSometimesHardMightNightFictionMysteryInfluenceDramaSellsHistoricalWesternContemporaryGenreSettlingHard TimesConsiderationHistorical FictionJournalDescribingStandpointBookstoresReviewers Author:Elizabeth Crook
“For me, something that's been always really important to me, that's also really served me well in hindsight, is doing different things, trying to cross different genres, and dipping my toes into comedy and drama and action here and there. Fortunately, as I've been working, the industry has also changed where you're able to dip your toes into different mediums, where it's not just independent film and studio film, but now you've got TV, and you're able to do all these different things. For me, it's just a matter of continually pushing myself and challenging myself.” TryingWellsImportantDifferentMatterAbleActionFilmChallengesComedyChangedTvsIndustryDramaCrossesIndependentStudiosMediumsGenreDifferent ThingsPushingToesHere And ThereHindsightIndependent FilmDipDifferent GenresChallenging Myself Author:Michelle Monaghan
“I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the viewer, move people, make you laugh, perhaps push an idea about being open-minded but never settle on a genre or an opinion. I hate genre. I like movies that are original in their approach.” PeopleThinkingWantIdeasStoriesRomanceMovingHateChallengesOpinionLaughingComedyDramaApproachToolsI HateOriginalsGenreSettlingViewersOpen MindedMake You LaughNever SettleBeing Open Minded Author:Jason Reitman
“Comedy's my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn't really change the method of acting.” FirstsPlayDifferencesActingComedyDramaMethodGenreFirst Love Author:Emma Stone
“I love all genres. The only thing I get stymied by is the Family Drama. I don't necessarily know how to approach that.” KnowsKnow HowDramaApproachGenreFamily Drama Author:Joss Whedon
“In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top” StillsRunningFilmComedyTelevisionDramaGenre Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar