Film Genres Quotes

I realized that here's a moment for me to learn so until I learn and understand more about how types of films are done - action, sci-fi - even though I have a desire to do it, I won't go into it until I'm very clear that I can do it and that moment hasn't come yet. Maybe one day I will ready, but for now, I just enjoyed playing the character.

For me, to get to play an action hero in a science fiction film is a marriage of two genres that I'm a huge fan of.

I'll do any kind of movie, as long as it's a good version of it.

My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.

When I was a teenager, you wanted to go to the movies. Go and see 'Mean Streets,' go and see 'The Conversation,' go and see 'Taxi Driver.'

Coming from where I came from, the Midwest, in the era I was born, the '30s, movies were glorious fun - Bette Davis dying or whatever. But whatever they were, they were not serious.

I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.

I'd like to do an action film, a full-on comedy film, family dramas and a soulful romantic film.

We didn't really have television when I was a kid. Around 30, I discovered films and started systematically catching up. I collect interesting documentaries and films, and watch a few nights a week.

There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.

Whether that's an action film or a comedy or a drama or anything in between, I'm willing to prove that I can play with the big boys.

I like stuff like 'Top Gun.' I like horror films. I love them.

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.

I can't tell at what age I developed this love towards movies, but I've always enjoyed watching films. I've grown up watching the films of my uncles Chiranjeevi and Pawan Kalyan.

I like a lot of documentaries, I like political movies and political thrillers. But I also like a good action movie. I like a pretty wide range.

That's also why comedy and horror are my two favorite genres of film to write, because you get these outbursts of emotion from people, laughter and shock, and it's really thrilling, and I like to be thrilled.

I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.

My mum raised me on 'On the Waterfront,' 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Rear Window.'

Dad loved movies, and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.

I'm sure a bunch of 15-year-old kids would way rather I do 'Superbad 2' than 'Moneyball.' But I would love to do movies like 'Superbad' and movies like 'Moneyball.'

Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

People say, 'Well, whose career do you follow? Where do you see your career going? What movie do you want to do next?' And I can't tell you what type of movie I would go and do next. I would have to read the script and feel for a character. And if I feel in my gut for a character, I know that that's somebody I have to play.

I don't think it's right to define films as commercial or art house. What's important is that a film evokes a certain emotion when it's being watched.

I want to take up anything that excites me. It can be a drama, action or a comedy.