Wong Kar-wai Quotes

Everyone always says, 'We don't want to be pigeonholed.' But sometimes, your pigeonhole is a great place to be.

It's a blessing and a curse at the same time, the idea of genre.

I think my whole career has been marked - or marred - by what people presume about me. But even that's fed back into the creativity. I'm saying that I'm about contradiction, that you can't put me into a box.

Why does everyone need to have a label?

I don't like to get pigeonholed. I don't like it when people think they have you sewn up.

Life is funny. Life isn’t categorized into comedy, drama, action, is it?So I don’t know why they try to categorize everything. It drives me crazy-why it would have to be just a romantic comedy or…I want to have a little integrity, a little story, you know

They stick you with those names, those labels -- ‘rebel’ or whatever; whatever they like to use. Because they need a label; they need a name. They need something to put the price tag on the back of.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

I became stereotyped.

Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.

I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.

All labels are offensive in some way.

I was always the freaky Asian girl who drew these weird-looking Barbie dolls in class.

I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.

What genre it falls under is only of interest later.

People always want to put a label on you; they always want to compare you to something.

I don't want to get pigeonholed.

I don't put labels on myself.

People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.

A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.

I think people like to have their categories clear. They want to know if it's fiction or fact, biopic or not.

That's one of my pet peeves. People always want to put something into a category - this one or that one. You know, a great song is a great song.

I hate labels.

I don't want to shut the door and only be thought of as the dark girl.

I don't really think about being pigeonholed so much.