Genre Films Quotes

It's really hard to find just a simple character-driven drama, outside of a genre, that was available to direct, except for on TV.

Really interesting genre films, especially monster movies, evoke the fears of the times intentionally. Our starting point was 'Godzilla' - the original movie was released less than 10 years after Hiroshima, and it's a classic in Japan.

I was honestly a cartoon kid. I loved cartoons. That was more my dream than anything else. But now, it's the films of people like John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands. Those are the kinds of characters I want to play, and that's the kind of filmmaking I'm fascinated by.

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

I throw it all in there, Kung Fu, blaxploitation, horror.

I love my genre films, but I think when I get older, the way I tell it will be very different to how I told it when I was in my mid-twenties, which is how old I was when I made the first 'Saw.'

I'm kind of... I'm a sci-fi fan, and I like horror; I'm a genre fan... but fantasy's not really ever something I've gotten into.

I want to do commercial films as well as off-beat movies.

I've done a lot of genre movies.

When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.

Really interesting genre films, especially monster movies, evoke the fears of the times intentionally.

The lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can't really identify with. When you see the same thing, over and over again, and it seems not to speak of you and your heritage and your culture, it leaves you out of this world a little bit.

I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures.

I realized that I really, almost by accident, had fallen into a labyrinthine, very powerful paradigm for dealing with these things through genre films. And once I realized that and realized the power of it, and the fact that because horror films aren't, in general, studio products - studios back them sometimes, but they don't try to meddle too much, because they kind of don't want to sully their skirts - you have a lot of freedom.

I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.

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.

'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.

But what's interesting is now - and not only in horror, but across the board - the studios basically only make B pictures with A budgets. That's the biggest difference.

My past films came out on home entertainment in the U.S., so the next question was, how do we get a theatrical in the U.S.? Well, you put a monster in it. That will do it, because people love monster movies.

When I was a kid, I was always watching genre movies on TV.

I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.

I like genre films.

I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.'

I have a very strong belief in what I like, or a very strong opinion in genre films that I like to watch.

I want to do one or two commercial films, but also want to do off-beat movies.