“I've been pretty lucky - or slothful - in that I've never been a "career builder," I take the jobs that come along that feel right, and that's left me fairly open to all genres, really. But with "Caprica," the complex, dark and very smart script was the draw.” FeelsJobsLeftDarkCareersLuckySmartDrawsComplexesScriptsGenreBuilderFeels RightVery Smart Author:Eric Stoltz
“I'd like to try different genres: comedy, period drama, rom-com, action.” TryingDifferentActionComedyPeriodsDramaGenreDifferent Genres Author:Nina Dobrev
“To make films like 'X-Men' work commercially - and also have some class - is one of the hardest things there is to do. I want to be seen to be able to cross lots of genres and still be 'fair dinkum,' as we say in Australia, which means genuine and true and, well, unique.” MenWantWellsMeanStillsAbleFilmClassUniqueFairsCrossesGenuineHardestGenreAustraliaHardest ThingX Men Author:Hugh Jackman
“From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior aspects of life took an almost excessive place.” MomentsPhotographyAspectLettersGenreProseVersesExteriorAspects Of Life Author:Paul Valery
“If the photographer is to create works that will stand for his spirit in the same way as artists in other genres, he must first - having no ready-made, abstract components such as works and sounds - supply other means to abstraction instead.” IfsWayFirstsMeanMadeSpiritArtistSoundReadyPhotographerGenreAbstractAbstractionComponents Author:Yukio Mishima
“I love making genre films. It's something I've really been attracted to since I was a kid, mostly because, as a kid, it was forbidden fruit.” KidsFilmFruitGenreForbiddenLove MakingForbidden Fruit Author:Patrick Lussier
“If I would had been born years earlier, I would have been in all the Westerns. It's just the way that the industry goes. But now, we are in an age of a lot of different kinds of fears, and you have the science fiction and horror genres doing our morality plays the same way that they would have done in Westerns. I absolutely accept it. In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.” IfsWayYearsKindHas BeensDifferentDonePlayAgeBornFictionAcceptingFantasyPaintingIndustryMoralityHorrorScience FictionGenreAbstractDifferent KindsHorror GenreAbstract Painting Author:Lance Henriksen
“I ride really well and I shoot a gun really well. I love the genre. Once I did Westerns, I was hooked. I love them, but there's been very few of them made. I never wanted to play a guy who was acting like a cowboy. I wanted to play someone who had a real life, but was also trapped into situations.” WellsMadeRealPlayWantedGuyActingSituationGunReal LifeGenreTrappedCowboyHooked Author:Lance Henriksen
“If I'm smart as an artist, I wouldn't be a snob and turn it down, because I'd look at it and go, this is great stuff, but I definitely do want to experiment in other genres, or make films in other genres.” IfsWantLooksFilmArtistTurnsStuffSmartExperimentsGenreSnob Author:James Wan
“I'm bored with the same genre, the same remakes of things. I like original ideas and high-concept things where it's off the page and kind of fantastical.” KindIdeasPagesConceptsOriginalsBoredGenreRemakesOriginal Ideas Author:Nina Dobrev
“I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books, or was a horror buff.” BookReadingFansGrewHorrorGrew UpComicGenreComic Book Author:Chad Lindberg
“I'm eager to do movies of different genres. I would love to not be confined by genre and do a lot of different things.” DifferentGenreDifferent ThingsConfinedDifferent Genres Author:Jason Winer
“I'm not particularly an expert on the genre. Correct me if I'm wrong, but usually you see most of the super-villain in his villainous role. He's the Green Goblin, or whatever various bad guys in Batman, or something like that. It's the excessive, larger than life, cartoon-ish, costumed character that is the personification of evil and has to be destroyed.” IfsCharacterGuyEvilRolesGreenVariousDestroyedGenreExpertsVillainCartoonBad GuysLarger Than LifePersonificationGoblinSuper Villain Author:James Frain
“I think there are fans who love the genre to begin with, and there are fans who love the comic book to begin with, but fans of the comic book aren't necessarily fans of the genre. There are obviously a lot of those people who love both, but I'm not a huge fan of that genre, personally.” PeopleThinkingBookFansHugeComicGenreComic Book Author:Steven Yeun
“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
“Sci-fi is very much an American genre. Space and the exploration of space is something so closely associated with America.” AmericaSpaceGenreExplorationSci Fi Author:Ben Richards
“One of the things I would love to do, by the time I die, is be in every single genre. That would be really fun. I get to shoot guns and jump out of a helicopter.” Would BeDiesFunGunGenreHelicopters Author:Indira Varma
“When I did TV shows and my other movies, I never try to do it for anybody. I just do what I think is good no matter what the genre is.” ThinkingTryingMatterShowsTvsNo Matter WhatGenreTv ShowsGenre Is Author:Will Gluck
“I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.” SeemsProduceSafeGenreSomething New Author:Guillermo del Toro
“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
“In the horror genre, unfortunately you sometimes have the studio tell you, "No, go with more unknown people because it's a scary movie," and I disagree.” PeopleSometimesHorrorStudiosScaryGenreDisagreeHorror Genre Author:Alexandre Aja
“So I get all the references and I totally get the humor and it's really fun. This - it's kind of a mash up of so many different genres and things that kind of, sort of are just part of youth culture right now. Music and action and video games, and it's kind of amazing to see it all piled into one film.” KindDifferentActionFilmCultureGamesFunYouthRight NowVideoGenreDifferent GenresYouth CultureMash Up Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead
“One of the things that did intrigue me about when I read the pilot - because I had not read the books before doing the show - was the mystery aspect of it. I didn't feel that it was just a crime-based story. It really does have that mystery element, and it felt like a throwback to other shows in the past that had a bit more of that. There was something iconic about it. The fact that it's set in Boston gave it a feeling that was different to me. So, I am definitely more of a fan of mysteries than I am of a circular crime-based genre.” FeelsDoeBookDifferentFactsStoriesShowsFeelingsPastFeltBitsMysteryFansCrimeElementsAspectGenrePilotsIntrigueBostonIconicThrowback Author:Sasha Alexander
“What we're really trying to tell, even though it's very much a genre show, is a very human story. Even in this heightened situation, it still comes down to people being people, and dealing with people as people. It really is about the seven people in that town.” PeopleTryingHumansStillsStoriesShowsSituationTownsSevenGenreDealing With People Author:Remi Aubuchon
“I've always been a sci-fi geek, and I've always loved it. It's my favorite genre of all. The irony of ironies is that, in my early career, I just really never worked in it. "Star Trek" was very interested in me, partially because I did "From the Earth to the Moon," and I was really interested in them, but the timing just never worked out.” EarthStarsCareersMoonMy FavoriteGenreIronySci FiTimingGeek Author:Remi Aubuchon
“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
“I don't have a favorite genre. I mean, I always sort of base it on instinct. And it does seem to be that after I finish something that is very dramatic, I end up inevitably wanting to do a comedy or something like that.” MeanDoeEndsSeemsComedyInstinctGenreDramatic Author:Carla Gugino
“The excitement about independent filmmaking is that they're a little more open to taking chances. The studios are a little more careful, as far as who they choose for their film and what they're known for and staying in the genre because they know what works.” KnowsLittlesFilmChanceKnownIndependentCarefulStudiosGenreExcitementStayingFilmmakingTake A ChanceIndependent Filmmaking Author:Malin Akerman
“The great thing about sci-fi is that the fans and the audience are unlike any other genre out there. They are constantly looking for great content and good stuff. They don't care where it comes from, they'll latch onto it.” CareStuffAudienceFansDon't CareGreat ThingsGenreSci FiLatches Author:Mike Vogel
“Well, you always worry about being pin holed. I haven't been yet. You always worry about that, no matter which genre you do. Luckily for me so far, every time I've done a movie it's been a completely different genre.” WellsDifferentMatterDoneWorryHavensGenrePinsDifferent Genres Author:Sylvain White
“I like doing whatever interests me. It's a challenge for me to try to make good comics out of any genre I tackle. I trust my instincts in getting me through the more difficult genres for modern readers, like violent crime or horror stories.” TryingStoriesDifficultInterestChallengesModernCrimeReaderHorrorInstinctViolentGenreHorror StoriesViolent Crimes Author:Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
“It seems like the powers that be are really trying to separate everything and really divide the genres and divide the trends. If you're metal and you don't sound like Slayer would sound now, then you're not metal. If you're punk rock and you don't sound like and preach about what The Sex Pistols would have preached about back in the day, then you're not really punk rock.” IfsTryingSeemsSexSoundRocksGenreTrendsDividesMetalsPunkPunk RockPistolsBack In The DaySlayerSex Pistols Author:Cristian Machado
“It doesn't matter the genre or type of art, if it's authentic there's an apparent beauty to it and as an artist, that's very inspiring.” IfsArtMatterArtistTypeGenreVery Inspiring Author:Brian McKnight
“You ever hear guys with small cocks talk about sex? Can't talk about it enough. They even got poems. They'll say, 'It's not the motion of the ocean, it's the boat of the lotion.' I've even heard variants..., it's not the tree or the size, it's the axe that you wax.' It's a whole sub-genre of poetry now that's taught in many of our finer institutions.” EnoughWholeGuySexHeardTreeTaughtOceanInstitutionsSizeBoatGenreLotion Author:Norm MacDonald
“What I try to do is reinvigorate strategies and clichés I find in Hollywood movies. At a certain point I had these huge folders, each one classified according to subject matter or genre: people with guns, people kissing, Indians and cowboys falling off horses, getting shot, getting shot with arrows - almost every plot device. Then I cropped the cheap, recycled imagery to give exhausted images new meaning, or at least something other than their original meaning. I'm basically reassembling atoms to give them a meaning that's more au courant.” PeopleGivingTryingMatterCertainFallSubjectsHugeKissingGunShotsHollywoodHorseOriginalsStrategyGenrePlotDevicesAtomsExhaustedCowboyImageryArrowsSubject MatterHollywood MoviesFalling OffRecycledFolders Author:John Baldessari
“When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something, they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.” PeopleKnowsFirstsKindMiddleTypeExcitingGenreUrban Author:FKA twigs
“The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.” WantCan DoBehaviorMy FavoriteGenreBest ThingsSci FiGenre Is Author:Brion James
“Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror, envy and nostalgia, and only a little to the critical understanding of the social world.” WorldLittlesSocialUnderstandingMountainPhotographyEvidenceTerrorCriticalEnvyNostalgiaGenreDocumentariesDocumentary Photography Book:Dismal science: photo works, 1972-1996 Source: Dismal science: photo works, 1972-1996
“All words have the "taste" of a profession, a genre, a tendency, a party, a particular work, a particular person, a generation, an age group, the day and hour. Each word tastes of the context and contexts in which it has lived its socially charged life.” PersonsAgeHoursPartyGenerationsGroupsParticularTasteProfessionTendenciesGenre Author:Mikhail Bakhtin
“Action comedy, if you can get it right, it is, for me, a particularly brilliant genre. It really is.” IfsActionComedyBrilliantGenre Author:Jason Statham
“I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.” WorldSoulRocksFitHip HopMy SoulHipsGenreHopsSpokesPunkPunk Rock Author:Patrick Stump
“I am impressed when music matters, when genres are broken, when spirits are lifted, when people make a difference, and when people are true to themselves.” PeopleMatterSpiritDifferencesBrokenGenreMaking A DifferenceImpressed Author:Nelly Furtado
“I've always been a prog rock fanatic, even before Vengeance. However I think I started to love the genre with Pink Floyd, yeah. I love them from the very beginning, also the Syd Barrett era.” ThinkingRocksYeahErasGenreVengeanceFanatics Author:Arjen Anthony Lucassen
“But I don't have anything to prove. My reputation is what it is. It seems that a lot of gay men are put off by jazz because either they don't believe it speaks to their own experience or they believe the genre itself to be somehow intolerant of homosexuality.” MenBelieveSeemsSpeakGayProveJazzDon't BelieveReputationGenreHomosexualityGay Men Author:Fred Hersch
“I'll always have a totally open mind to endless possibilities. I want to do a dance album. Not Techno, but a record that's exclusively designed for people to dance to. That whole dance genre is kinda into its own world. I'd just like to get in there and mess around with that.” PeopleWorldWantMindWholeRecordsPossibilityAlbumsEndlessMessGenreOpen MindTechnoGenre IsEndless Possibilities Author:Rob Halford
“I do experiment with lots of different genres. In making music, I don't think of genre like, "I want to do this, because I'm going use that country music sound; I'm going use that hip-hop sound; I'm going use that acoustic [sound]." It's just making music. So now that I've traveled a lot more since I did Acoustic Soul, I'm sure that different sounds will come into place, because I have been exposed to it and I like it. But it's not so much of a conscience effort. It's mind and spirited. You know, we're humans.” ThinkingKnowsWantMindHumansHas BeensDifferentSoulCountryUseSoundEffortConscienceHip HopExperimentsHipsGenreHopsExposedTraveledAcousticsSpiritedDifferent Genres Author:India.Arie
“[Brion calls his working relationship with West a natural fit.] His knowledge and understanding of records across the board is great, ... That's the reason why we got along: We don't see music as something that happens in one genre.” ReasonHappensUnderstandingNaturalRecordsFitWestGenreReason WhyBoardsKnowledge And Understanding Author:Jon Brion
“George Jones was a big, huge name in our household. George Jones-he is considered country, but in every genre he is known. Everybody knows George Jones. But George has such a unique voice. And he made such timeless songs, like "Color of the Blues", just real hard-core country stuff.” KnowsMadeRealCountryHardBigsSongNamesStuffVoiceKnownColorHugeUniqueCoreGenreHouseholdTimelessHard CoreGeorge JonesUnique Voices Author:Patty Loveless