Tom Felton Quotes

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

Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie.

Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.

I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

I've never been attracted to sci-fi per se. People tell me I'm in a genre kind of movie, but it never crossed my mind that 'The Matrix' was genre.

'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.

Any genre as it's called, I think can be quite reductive in terms of what a film is, because I think there is an eagerness to put in any film, in anybody's work, to give it a genre title and I think as a consequence of that, the film starts to obey the rules of the genre.

I think a good movie is a good movie whether that falls into a genre or not.

I don't think I make genre films. I think studios try to sell films as genres because they know how to do that. There's nothing wrong with that. I don't know what I make. It's sort of a pot roast, all my films.

What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.

I think I've never really liked the idea of genre, a film that follows the rules of a genre.

The funny thing about my films is that you can make little piles of them. You could make little piles of the movie that were family movies, you could make a little art movie pile, you could make a little action movie pile.

People want to classify and say, 'OK, this is a gangster film.' 'This is a Western.' 'This is a... ' You know? It's easy to classify and it makes people feel comfortable, but it doesn't matter, it doesn't really matter.

It's like I don't have any one genre, I guess. I think you'd be hard-pressed to get me into a rom-com, but who knows?

All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.

The whole idea of genre and categorising films is a critic's construct. For me, I just try and make stories and see where they go, but there's nothing wrong with horror; there's nothing wrong with romantic comedies.

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.

Superhero movies have become a genre unto themselves, and I didn't really grow up on superhero movies. I grew up on genre movies before superhero was a genre.

I am not a cult director at all. I make Hollywood movies.

I don't like to classify my own tracks as a genre.

I don't necessarily consider myself a horror filmmaker.

People keep referring to 'Sing Street' as a musical, but I really never felt it was that. I can't really define it as a musical.

There's no such thing as an anti-war film.

But fundamentally, I don't think of it as an alien-invasion movie; everybody's here, kind of, right? So, I think it's probably more of an action-adventure picture, if I actually had to qualify it.

Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know... It's just good entertainment.