Marco Beltrami Quotes

I don't make a conscious effort to choose any particular genre. If I like the script, I go ahead with the project.

I'm not staying away from any genre. I'm trying to get scripts that I like.

I make the kind of music I like.

The reason why I'm not a pop star is I would have hated it. I'll stick to being an artist. I'm not trying not to be commercial; I am just doing what I do. I have finely tuned tastes, and that gets prioritized above everything else. That's just how it is.

If it's got the feeling, if the music moves you or not, it doesn't matter what the genre is to me.

I just know that I'm a fan of all different kinds of genres. You're supposed to be free doing music, and that's how I feel.

At first I didn't dig country.

I'm into hip-hop, rap, country, blues, gospel, old school, new school... whatever... pop. If it's really good, I like it. I don't have to be told what to listen to. If I like it and it's good, I'll listen to it.

I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.

I like to think of my style as pretty versatile. And I'd like whatever I record to reflect that to be mostly genre - to be just something that people want to listen on to see what I'm going to come up with next. That's the kind of music I'm into.

I am completely open to doing a romantic comedy, but I will never do something just for the sake of doing a specific genre or because it's the time or place to do a different type of movie. I think that would be a huge mistake.

I learned about embracing all different genres as opposed to just getting attached to one.

I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.

Everyone wants to do only those films which they find interesting. That is the way the industry works.

I don't want to be stuck to any specific genre.

Music is music - it makes no difference what it is. I can like Slipknot and Public Enemy equally.

I would never pigeon hole myself stylistically because I just don't know what I am going to want to do next.

I've always had influences from all over the place, like Mr. Bungle and Primus. As a band, we try not to focus too much on where it's coming from, because we're always listening to music.

Genre hopping is something I intend to do, and I intend to do it forever and ever because I think genres are boring.

If I am doing a certain kind of cinema, that does not mean I hate the other kind.

I only take up roles that really appeal to me, and like to break the rules as an actress.

Whether it's a song that might deviate from an artists' usual sound or even if it's still very much in their world, I think the more people opening themselves up creatively to collaborate with others, the better.

At the end, we can embrace and love whatever we want of an author's work. But we also can't ignore a writer's express wish just because we don't happen to agree with it.

I don't really care what type of beat it is. As long as it appeals to my ear, I'm gonna do a song to it.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.