Blurring Genres Quotes

You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice.

Here I was, having done a thriller and a horror movie - why did I have the audacity to make a romantic fantasy? How can I continue to make genre films? Well, maybe I don't want to continue to make genre films.

I don't think it's an unnatural thing at all for my collaborations or projects to be seen as art but entertainment at the same time.

To me, the best comedies get a little dark, and the best thrillers are a little bit funny. So I'm not exactly sure where I draw the line between the two.

I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my first novel, 'When Nietzsche Wept,' has a great deal of non-fiction in it. I didn't create many characters at all. Almost all of them are historical characters that actually existed.

Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions.

The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my "documentaries" were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.

I don't feel as though I've graduated from commercials or music videos. In my mind, they aren't compartmentalised.

I'm interested in non-fiction, but a form of it which is very badly behaved, which doesn't define itself as straight-ahead journalism or memoir. It blurs boundaries, plays fast and loose with the truth - not to be silly, whimsical or lazy, but to get greater purchase on what it feels like to be alive.

I sort of straddle the line... between personal movies and mainstream Hollywood.

I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay.

I really like films and plays that cross over different genres. So I'd like to do something that you think is a drama and then you think is a supernatural thing and then becomes a drama again. That's very vague.

It used to be that film stars didn't want to do TV, and actors weren't singing, and singers weren't acting. Everybody's kind of crossing over to whatever they want to do. So I feel like, if you have it, use it. If God's given you this talent, then use it.