My genre is the pop ballad with a touch of R&B.
I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don't care about the genre.
The genre I listen to the most is salsa, so people look at me and see this guy who's done mostly romantic ballads, but there's always been this other side.
When I was a kid, I was always watching genre movies on TV.
Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.
It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television.
I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It's kinda funny to think that I'm like the old man on campus now. But I'm really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they're really good guys.
I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema.
Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for.
I try to just be the person I am, with a lot of sensitivity to the genre in which I'm playing.
The biggest thing about me, as an actor, is I'm never a finished product, you know? I always want to try something or be in a new genre because, one, it's much more fun to do that because you're not doing the same thing over and over.
The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre.
Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre.
At the end of the day, I'm writing in a genre that isn't highly regarded.
I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.
In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.
I'm not loyal to one genre. I want to mix it up.
I hate the term 'emo.' It turned into this genre of music, when all music, if you connect with it, is emotional.
To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.
The action-movie genre is a very difficult one to get satiated in terms of your acting bits.
My feeling is there's a lot of straight drama on television. My goal in life is to try to create something unexpected, and genre is the tool in doing that.
There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others.
I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I write.
I came late to the genre of folk music.
The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.
Sometimes, the action genre does get stale. Although I want to go back and see my favorite characters in their tentpoles - and will religiously do that - it's really fun to see breakout ideas and concepts. Let's make some new stories.
It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me.
Everyone in the '80s was reading Tolkien; he invented this whole medieval fantasy genre.
I have a great affection for comics, and I think that people underrate comics as a genre.
Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up.
One of my favorites of all time was with Jim Jarmusch, called 'Dead Man.' I was in that with Johnny Depp. I ride really well, and I shoot a gun really well. I love the genre. Once I did Westerns, I was hooked.
I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.
Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.
I don't understand why we give up genres, and the Western is a great genre. It's a part of the rich history of cinema and who we are as we've evolved as people, as a community.
The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror genre that shows a growing appetite for watching torture, or at least a desire to explore it on film? And if so, why would that be? I can't pretend I know. I just know I don't like it.
