Genndy Tartakovsky Quotes

I would like to be in tons of different types of movies and do different things. I like action movies, and with 'Mr. Peabody and Sherman', I got to see a historical movie, too.

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.

Becoming that guy who does one thing is not very interesting. I'm lucky and proud to have been involved in period films and action films.

I always thought that I had a pretty diverse body of work, I mean, as far as subject matter. Teenage rock and roll movie; romance; '20s Western. On paper it looks different, but then there's similarities in the vibe of them.

I believe that the difference in genre of movies is a small thing.

I tried my hand in action films, and now I am back to love stories, as people like to see me as a lover boy! But as an actor, I want to try all genres.

As a filmmaker, I don't want to limit myself to one kind of movie.

I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.

I always try to get games of different genres. This is the reason Postal is a comedy, and Far Cry is a real, pure action movie - like Die Hard on an island - and In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale was my opportunity to do my epic, Braveheart, Lord Of The Rings, Gladiator movie. I try not to repeat myself in genres too much.

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.

Getting to do different genres of movies means you're gonna have different types of situations. So I want to try and do every type of genre there is out there.

I love the idea that all genres can have subsets.

Everybody wants me to do action kind of films. It is OK.

I watch certain kinds of masala films.

In Australia in the '70s, there was a real embrace of different genres. And then George Miller did 'Mad Max' by the end of the '70s, the beginning of the '80s. And it was really thriving.

As far as the type of movies I am offered is concerned, it's a mix. I have been offered both period films and the regular fare.

I am open to doing comedies, romantic stories, and commercial cinema, but it has to work for me so that I can give a year of my life in making it.

I don't have any limitations that I only want to do serious films. I am trying to break that image but not very consciously.

My aim is to do all genres, both entertainment and art.

Bollywood is such a space where you get to work with so many genres. Genres being pushed isn't the way of looking at it. In fact, I think Indie needs to be given a lot more focus or recognition.

If all young actors want is to star in romances, what do they need to learn kung fu for?

Hip-hop is not one thing!

Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog.

I want to make every kind of movie that I can make. I don't really care if they're big or small.

Modern animated movies are the products not of anyone’s individual vision, but rather a scattered accumulation of compromises made out of fear by members of large committees.