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[about the movie Monte Walsh]: "I just really want people to see this movie and I hope they like it, because to me Monte Walsh probably reflects my sensibilities more than any other I`ve done in the Western genre. I`m really proud of it and I think it may...
Tom Selleck
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One of the things I learned on Training Day (2001) was it can be fun to work inside a genre. And I`ve also always felt that if you wanted to keep working, that if you`re not a real chameleon of an actor and if you`re not one of those guys who can really s...
Ethan Hawke
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I think `Everything and More` is a more mature version of `One Voice.` The music is fun and includes all aspects of the country genre (including bluegrass, pop, country rock, and traditional ballads) and every song is about a new aspect in my life. One so...
Billy Gilman
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Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don`t mind saying that, it`s true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them. I don`t feel particularly typecast because I think I do so many different kinds of things. Whether they`re seen or not...
Meg Ryan
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Yes, to me that`s one of the most compelling fears in film noir and the psychological thriller genre - that fear of conspiracy. It`s definitely something that I have a fear of - not being in control of your own life. I think that`s something people can re...
Christopher Nolan
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I`d be in a bad western on a good horse any day of the week. It`s such a fantastic genre of film.
Val Kilmer
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The reason why I decided to wait two years after the Bond movie, and to work with Ang Lee in a martial arts movie, is because I really believe that this genre deserves more respect and dignity than it`s ever been given. Before, people saw it as a fairy ta...
Michelle Yeoh
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Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don`t know... It`s just good entertainment. (in interview with American Western Magazine, January 2001 issue)
Tom Selleck
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Yeah, I`m seen by the studios as a genre guy. I`ve made several non-genre films, but nobody went to see them. I guess I`ll never be a member of that club.
George A. Romero
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Yeah, I`m seen by the studios as a genre guy. I`ve made several non-genre films, but nobody went to see them. I guess I`ll never be a member of that club.
George A. Romero
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I don`t want to be exploited. That of course, as an actress, is a real challenge, not to be exploited. So I`m just going to keep looking for as many different types of roles as I can find in different genre movies. That`s my goal, my aim. I like doing tha...
Famke Janssen
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On Mad Max II (The Road Warrior) "It was a very, very clever movie. Just look at what the genius of George Miller started. A lot of people copied that look that genre over the years. It was really quite ahead of its time."
Virginia Hey
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For a young actor like me to have the oportunity to work with the genre of actors and directors on `Lord Of The Rings` is unbelievable. There was no, should I should I not. It was like, where do I sign up! It was just bonkers. It was like here, have a lif...
Orlando Bloom
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It shocks me that 90210 and Superbad are technically considered part of the same genre. It was as much TV shows as movies that made us feel under-represented. No part of me watched 90210 and thought, `Yeah! that`s what my life is like!` It seemed like a d...
Seth Rogen
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[March 2004] They`re too scared. They feel they have to top themselves in a genre which is just spectacle and a huge bang for your buck. But I think you can have your cake and eat it. You can have real character work, a character storyline and a thriller ...
Pierce Brosnan
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If one horror film hits, everyone says, "Let`s go make a horror film!" It`s the genre that never dies.
George A. Romero
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I want to do work that is memorable. To portray interesting and different character and avoid boring stereotype. I`m eager to explore almost any genre or character, and I hope I`m lucky enough to play a myriad of smart, sexy, ground-breaking women that le...
Adrienne Wilkinson
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(Oct. 2007) Melodrama is a much maligned genre. And I hope we can bring it back into fashion. I always think of melodrama as the thing we are all capable of that`s swept under the rug.
Sidney Lumet
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Really interesting genre films, especially monster movies, evoke the fears of the times intentionally. Our starting point was Godzilla - the original movie was released less than 10 years after Hiroshima, and it`s a classic in Japan. It came out at the sa...
Matt Reeves
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The term `genre` eventually becomes pejorative because you`re referring to something that`s so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. What I`m trying to do is to create modern equivalents that sp...
Christopher Nolan
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Even now, people want to marginalize me. They want to attribute all my success to teenagers seeing my movies. I really resent it when people say, "It`s just a genre film; it`s a teen comedy." It takes a lot of work to make these things have heart and reso...
Reese Witherspoon
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...the reason horror films are being made is that distributors and financiers see a way of making easy money. The genre is riding a wave of popularity that it hasn`t enjoyed in a long time. It has broken out of the hardcore audience section and is reachin...
Neil Marshall
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[genres] "I had never really done something that was more of a horror film, and it`s funny, because those are the kind of movies that I like probably more than any other genre. The script had images in it that I liked ."
Tim Burton
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In France, I`m an auteur; in Germany, a filmmaker; in Britain; a genre film director; and, in the USA, a bum.
John Carpenter
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I`m grateful when anybody can start to have his or her limited perception of the genre open up a little bit. There`s a lot of great music in the country genre that doesn`t get heard because people say, `Well, I don`t like country.`
Keith Urban
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I`m grateful when anybody can start to have his or her limited perception of the genre open up a little bit. There`s a lot of great music in the country genre that doesn`t get heard because people say, `Well, I don`t like country.`
Keith Urban
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I have this need to keep country being perceived as a cool genre and a broad genre. I really think that country is a genre as big as rock and roll. I would love to get to the point where someone asks, `What kind of music do you play?` I say, `Country.` An...
Keith Urban
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I have this need to keep country being perceived as a cool genre and a broad genre. I really think that country is a genre as big as rock and roll. I would love to get to the point where someone asks, `What kind of music do you play?` I say, `Country.` An...
Keith Urban
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I have this need to keep country being perceived as a cool genre and a broad genre. I really think that country is a genre as big as rock and roll. I would love to get to the point where someone asks, `What kind of music do you play?` I say, `Country.` An...
Keith Urban
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I`m not linked to one genre or another. I like to change, so there`s no risk of getting bored. I enjoy all sorts of films and I don`t consider myself a horror fan, although I do like Dario Argento`s and John Carpenter`s movies.
Ennio Morricone
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