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“Sunshine takes its intelligent and honourable place in the history of grownup science fiction on the screen and on the page: a genre that seeks to break free of parochialism and think about where and why and what we are without the language of religion... I loved Sunshine for its radical proposal that humans can and will do something about a catastrophe, and that our weapons could be used up in the service of preservation.”

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Author:Peter Bradshaw

“The American independent cinema is as formulaic as Hollywood and one genre is what you might call the 'inaction movie'. The setting is invariably a decaying town in a regional backwater where a catalytic stranger or returning native meets up with a group of sad, eccentric outsiders.”

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Author:Philip French

“Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they would like to have sex with or plots that are more likely to make their dates have sex with them. Reviewers are doing their day's work, cinema-goers are escaping from theirs: this leads to an inevitable difference of response. It is, though, wrong to conclude that reviewers are completely useless. Books, movies and shows may be critic-proof, but the egos and psyches of the people who make them very rarely are.”

“There's always stress involved in any genre or art form, there's always going to be a struggle. If there's no struggle, you wouldn't do anything. What are you going do? Retire?”

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Author:Van Morrison

“Whatever kind of story you're telling, whether it's a genre piece for a comic book or whatever it is, it has importance because it's all a metaphor for the existence of our being.”

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Author:Seth Gabel

“In the early '80s, I was blown away when I began to hear some of the earliest hip-hop songs, and I'm fascinated by all the permutations the genre has gone through.”

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Author:Simon de Pury

“I'm a huge fan of the horror genre and the supernatural elements.”

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Author:Mena Suvari

“I'm such a huge fan of the horror genre and the supernatural elements... There was something that happened to me. It was easy to be wild and crazy, and just let go and attack people.”

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Author:Mena Suvari

“The great thing about working on a genre show is that you can basically have a season finale where every character is left destroyed, and then hit the reset button and come back for the next season.”

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Author:Julie Benz

“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.”

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Author:Steve Pink

“At some point, you have an opportunity to not be a first-time filmmaker anymore. You can embrace the genre and show the world how you can tell stories on a bigger scale.”

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Author:Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

“You used to have to make a choice. Is it a serialized television show, or is it a stand-alone or procedural? We were wildly influenced by The X-Files. Even when we created Fringe, it was the same thing. It's the gold standard of all gold standards, in genre television, and it was so wonderful because you felt so much for those characters.”

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Author:Alex Kurtzman

“I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genre and world. But at the same time, I love sci-fi because the women are so strong and independent and smart.”

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Author:Laura Vandervoort

“I just wanted to make sure that yes, that those horror - they worked as a genre. To me, I just wanted to be touched by the film in the way that I saw plausible. Which is the story about compassion - giving and receiving it in those desperate times of need.”

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Author:Vera Farmiga

“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.”

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Author:Jennifer Aniston

“I have my library separate from the family home, and every room is a different genre. The only room that I can guarantee I've read everything is the horror room.”

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Author:Guillermo del Toro

“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.”

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Author:Jason O'Mara

“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.”

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Author:Skrillex

“It's been an obsession of various genres, disciplines, and aspects and elements of movie-making. It's always been something that I've really aspired to, so doing something new and different, reinventing myself and working with new people is just the passport to the amazing world that is the movies.”

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Author:David Gordon Green

“The reason I got into this business was for the privilege to exist in different genres and different worlds and play out different realities.”

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Author:Lake Bell

“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.”

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Author:Dylan McDermott

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

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Author:James Mangold

“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.”

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Author:Paula Patton

“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.”

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Author:James Mangold

“I don't want to get locked into any one type of genre. I just want to constantly be working with amazing directors and amazing actors, and just always pushing the envelope on what I can do, as an actor.”

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Author:Nico Tortorella

“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.”

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Author:Afrojack

“Many people have tried to define science fiction. I like to call it the literature of exploration and change. While other genres obsess upon so-called eternal verities, SF deals with the possibility that our children may have different problems. They may, indeed, be different than we have been.”

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Author:David Brin

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

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Author:LeCrae

“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.”

Source: Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress

“For a while, the genre seemed to be just about sex and crime. Rappers are storytellers; the stories don't need to be true!”

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Author:Lauryn Hill

“The genre of television that I love and watch is so vast. There's not one type of thing I love.”

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Author:Bridget Regan

“If a show is good, it helps people learn about themselves, in some way and in some function. Whatever the genre is, if it's executed well, audiences grow and learn from it, and that's where their passion and enthusiasm comes from.”

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Author:Matthew Davis

“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.”

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Author:Lorenzo di Bonaventura

“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.”

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Author:Michael Chiklis

“I don't have a checklist. Whatever material excites me, they'll call for a certain genre or combination of genres. It'll come naturally and I'll be eager to learn how that thing works. I learn the rules, and I'll probably break some of them.”

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Author:Ang Lee

“You have to know the rules, otherwise you have no tools to communicate to the audience, but to keep it fresh you have to break some. I don't choose genres as the element, but the material itself is the element, then I'll decide what genre I need. That's just how I work.”

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Author:Ang Lee

“It's difficult to make the interesting feature films that don't fit easily into a genre, even on modest budgets. It's tough to get those films made, but I'd rather try to get those films made than compromise too much.”

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Author:Julian Jarrold

“Sometime female characters, especially in the genre of something that people consider rom-com, make mistakes in a cute way or they're a mess in a way that's palatable. I like that.”

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Author:Greta Gerwig

“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.”

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Author:Madeline Zima

“I don't want to just make relationship movies. I would love to do whatever feels like it's important and timely and needs to be told. It doesn't matter what genre. It doesn't have to just be relationships.”

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Author:Daryl Wein

“I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.”

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Author:Tony Goldwyn

“I think the combination of action and the combination of comedy are two really, really good genres to meld together.”

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Author:Neal H. Moritz

“I have always touched on different genres whether it has been hip-hop, country and the rock element.”

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Author:Kid Rock

“I love horror movies, so it's a real treat to be able to work on a television show of that genre, and have it actually be really, really good.”

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Author:Alexandra Breckenridge

“There's always your initial trepidation about doing a remake, but that was alleviated by the fact that it was a prequel. Immediately, that gives you creative license to really recreate and explore and put a new stamp on the genre.”

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Author:Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

“I always find myself pulled back into the fantasy genre, and I can't really explain it.”

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Author:Nick Willing

“I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres.”

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Author:Jessie J

“I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.”

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Author:Jackie Evancho

“To me, the most important tool is not a physical or a technical one. It's more of a cerebral one. It's your brain. It's about having an interest in experimenting musically, perhaps touching on several different genres of music. No doubt, the most important tool is the mind. It's the willingness to experiment freely.”

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Author:Mike Portnoy

“For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demo-graphic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.”

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Author:Taylor Swift

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