Billy Wilder Quotes

I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film... I can't sit still.

I've always been a chameleon from book to book, like a director who does different films in the best possible way.

I try to be eclectic in my choice of films. If I've done anything that's intentional in my career, it's to try to do as many different types of characters and as many different types of genres of movies that I can.

I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent.

I adore Stanley Kubrick, all of his films were different, not just in subject but tonally.

I'm just tryna be honest about all the things that I dig in my music. It's not just this over here, it's also that over there.

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

If you look at the films that I've done generally, you would probably get an idea of what I'm most interested in, and if ever I do something unusual like a science fiction film or an action film or a comedy or something, then that to me feels like a step to the side to do something different.

I really feel that the thing that I love the most about my career is that it is so eclectic. You know, I've gone from so many genres and so many different mediums and I love that most - that people have always given me the chance to do vastly different things.

I think it's very boring for a director to always do the same kind of movies.

I'm not the most famous guy in the world; my work is spread out across different mediums, and I never write the same kind of story and rarely even do the same character from one year to the next.

The idea of doing a children's film is different, but quite honestly I like doing anything - any genre. I've only made one Western, which was 'Three Amigos,' but I would love to make a serious Western. I'm just wide open.

But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

Don't be surprised if you all see me in different kinds of cinema.

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 am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films - I love them both.

If you look at what I do, there's no consistency. The consistency is that there is no consistency. I do projects that are good and not so good.

I didn't want to be known as a man who only made horror films. I made some - very few.

I don't want to just make horror movies; I don't want to just make any type of movie - I don't just like horror movies, I love movies.

I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.

I don't think Paul Thomas Anderson has a standard approach to anything.

I want to do every kind of movie and role you could imagine.

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