Quotes About Genre

I think that the Western went away for a while because part of its function was that it used to be America's action film.

I vividly remember Charles Bronson's face in 'Chino.' The western genre is screaming for a face like that.

'Slow West' is a western, and it's sort of a twist on the genre stylistically, I think, from what I understand going in.

I've made the film 'The Good, the Bad, the Weird,' which was an Eastern Western film. Obviously, the Western film is American and American only; there's really no Western genre over in Asia.

Throughout the movies' golden age, the Western enriched Hollywood financially and artistically. But in the 1970s, the genre lost its audience appeal to fantasy films of the 'Star Wars' stripe, which told more or less the same story - elemental animosities leading to an armed showdown - but at a faster tempo, and in outer space.

A romance novel is more than just a story in which two people fall in love. It's a very specific form of genre fiction. Not every story with a horse and a ranch in it is a Western; not every story with a murder in it is a mystery; and not every book that includes a love story can be classified as a romance novel.

I love the Western genre. In fact, one of my dreams is to play a cowboy on screen, like Clint Eastwood. I don't think it's going to happen, but you can always hope.

I think what's fun about the Western genre is the character arcs are very strong and, arguably, more interesting and exciting than the action that is metaphorically representational of those arcs.

If you look at how people use the term 'western,' you can only conclude that it means a movie that has big hats and horses. And if you really want to sound like you've been thinking, then you'll use a term like 'genre.' But all the hell it seems to mean is big hats and horses. Which is not all that deeply analytical.

So much good music has been looked over because of preconceived notions of genre.

I do enjoy intense, bloodthirsty action, but I like to blend and cross genres. I don't want to be too predictable.

I prefer black music in general.

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

I'm a rock drummer. I couldn't sit down and pretend to be a jazz drummer.

I want to work with Danny Brown but also Cannibal Corpse and Maroon 5.

I think country music is Lynyrd Skynyrd. I think a lot of the country music is what we do, but I don't think rock & roll is dead at all.

Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.

Horror is a part of science fiction. It belongs in the definition of sci-fi.

I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.

I love the horror genre. I consider myself a genre filmmaker. I love genre, but I think there's a certain amount of complacency that comes with watching a genre film; people know what the devices are. They know what the tropes are. They know the conventions.

The joy of making a genre film is that you have audiences in that place, and it's a perfect place to start because all it takes is finding ways to startle them out of that complacency and encourage a different kind of engagement.

To just get in front of different kinds of audiences is important for me. I do think it's important for music to be a big family. Whether it's country or not.

'Spinal Tap' is interesting because it created a genre of film and ended it - all in one motion. If you do a mockumentary, you are always going to be compared with that film, and you are never going to be as funny.

I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before.