Nicolas Roeg Quotes

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.

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.

One of my biggest fears with 'Coloring Book' was that it would be labeled. I hate labels. I never sought out for people to recognize it as a gospel album.

Moviemaking is a dirty, tiring affair. The joy comes from the possibility to be free on set and really let loose.

What you write sets the visual style for the film. But you have to compromise your style in your first few films before people let you do what you want to do.

I want to highlight this, that to make meaningful cinema, we really need an enabling environment and freedom to express.

Genre mechanics are really tricky because if you pay too much attention to the idea of rules of genre, it becomes pretty stale, pretty fast.

I'm deeply appreciative that many people have enjoyed my films, films that I made in my own style. The successes have helped me learn how to make films free of expectations and focus solely on the pure filmmaking aspect, without worrying about how much money it'll make.

We don't want to become like country artists where there's a formula.

In America, I don't think you have the creative freedom that I'm used to. Traditionally, it's a producer's cinema here.

Hollywood seduces a person who's used to making theater, art, and having success on their own terms and then tries to squish them into a box and, eventually, throws the box out.

It's pretty hard as an Asian rapper to not be put in a box. I do my best to avoid that.

Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.

Netflix gives a lot of creative and artistic freedom to its actors and to its production team and whatnot.

I am not a genre-based artist.

I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.

I think it's a bit like saying a painter does a painting everyone loves and it's 40% blue paint, so from now on you have to paint paintings that are 40% blue. That's the film industry at its most blunt, which is why it's constantly bats and spiders and superheroes.

What I don't like is when people feel like they can box an artist into who they think an artist should be.

I love indie movies - I feel they can really allow you to develop a character.

I don't label films or actors, and labelling means setting boundaries. Why do you want to do that to 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.

I hate genres. I think they're just marketing labels.

I never had a problem with genre because a genre actually is like a uniform - you put yourself into a certain uniform.

I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different from other kinds of writing, I suppose, so it deserves a name of its own. But where I can get prickly and combative is, if I’m just called a sci-fi writer. I’m not. I’m a novelist and poet. Don’t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I don’t fit, because I’m all over. My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.