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Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre.

It's very important, at least to me as a writer, that there be some rules on the table when I'm writing. Rules come from genres. You're writing in a genre, there are rules, which is great because then you can break the rules. That's when really exciting things happen.

When in doubt, make a western.

It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.

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

To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.

Limitations, be they practical or arbitrary, force artists to dig more deeply instead of settling for easy answers.

I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen.

'Macbeth' is one of the best operas ever, and doing it was a great experience. I added some things to the opera based from my experience on the movie - such as some of the special effects and bits of film - to make it new and interesting. It was a very good work and a very good experience.

I'm a big believer in creating parameters for creativity. I think parameters make people more creative. So that starts with my budgets. I only do low budget movies, and I think that makes the movies better.

Ultimately, a director is a storyteller. I wanted to fortify that part of my life as a director, so I thought the best way to do that is to study and learn about the greatest stories ever written.

I don't want to be an actress. I want to be doing good work that is well written and has good people in it.

Writing in a strict form can surprise you.

I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.

It is no surprise that animation is Hollywood's most successful and innovative genre.

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.

A lot of directors understand everything but the story.

Moviemaking is about telling a story. And you need to know what story you are going to tell.

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.

My initial idea was I wanted to make it a horror film, very much. At times I do enter that world.

I did so many comedies that we've had numerous discussions about horror of film and I've always been really hesitant to do so because the last thing I wanted to make was a horror movie.

Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame. If you draw a giraffe, you must draw him with a long neck. If in your bold creative way you hold yourself free to draw a giraffe with a short neck, you will really find that you are not free to draw a giraffe.

I do genre films because I like them, or because I need the money.

I think creativity is something that best happens when you have clear parameters. If you're not confined by anything then it's meaningless. You've got to rap over the beat, or you've got to color within your canvas. You pick the canvas size first. That makes most sense to me.