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“I've probably gone as far as I can with that particular genre,”
Sleepless in Seattle
“an effective use of the genre.”
Kate Winslet
“I'm ready to contribute a lot in the genre and, you know, I feel a little responsibility over my shoulders because right now,” Daddy Yankee said. “I'm the ambassador of my movement. But, being honest with you, I'm ready to represent my people all over the world.”
Daddy Yankee
“[With all the hoopla surrounding objectivity in Moore's documentary, the filmmaker actually makes no claim to such a genre.] I don't know if you should call it a documentary, ... I think it's a nonfiction film. It's certainly not made up. Everything you see is real. It actually happened and I filmed it as it happened. But that word, I don't like that word. It has just some bad connotation to it. I set out to make a movie whenever I start one of these. I'm not thinking, 'Oh, I want to make a documentary.' I don't even know really what that means. I like to go to the movies. I go to three or four movies a week. I love going to the movies and I want to make a movie that I would go see. And that's what I set out to do.”
Michael Moore
“He took a dead genre notorious for flops turned it into one of the biggest hits. It'll be interesting to see if he can do it again.”
Brandon Gray
“Lunar Park came out of wanting to write a Stephen King novel. In 1989, I wanted to write two genre novels. I wanted to write a Stephen King novel and a Robert Ludlum novel. I loved those genres and those writers.”
Bret Easton Ellis
“I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.”
Anne Lamott
“As we have begun a new genre of television with the increasing use of small production companies that are for the most part non union, the genre has developed a new meaning to the concept of sweat-shop.”
Cheryl Rhoden
“There were a lot of negative perceptions of both the genre and who actually watched it, that it's for geeks, it's all male and it's for 12-year-olds. So we had to embrace a lot of what we heard and then try to figure out how to change that.”
Bonnie Hammer
“I don't ever want to fit my music into one genre, because every song needs to develop the way it wants to. It has to have its own feel and vibe. I'm noticing that songs can be way across the spectrum and still fit together and tell a story.”
Chloe Day
