About Quote by Jonas Mekas

Film noir is not a genre. It is not defined, as are the western and gangster genres, by conventions of setting and conflict, but…

— Paul Schrader

Once you got Hollywood doing these kinds of movies and having all the, how you say, the tools to do it, and also to…

— Violante Placido

I'm not educated about cinema or genres.

— Imtiaz Ali

It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood.

— Domenico Dolce

Any genre as it's called, I think can be quite reductive in terms of what a film is, because I think there is an…

— Steven Knight

The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

— Andre Bazin

You could call it that [urban Western], I guess, you could certainly call it that. A lot of these types of films are, really,…

— Antoine Fuqua

When I was making these damned pictures, I never knew about film noir. If you had asked me about it then, I probably would…

— Samuel Fuller

The avant-garde understands itself as invading unknown territory, exposing itself to the dangers of sudden, shocking encounters, conquering an as yet unoccupied future ...…

— Jurgen Habermas

I'm not limited by genre and it doesn't really matter what the genre is as long as the film is going to be new…

— Josh Hartnett

I watched a lot of avant-garde films, like Maya Deren's work, and I love film's technical ability to do things that are impossible in…

— Wangechi Mutu

There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this theres certainly…

— J. C. Chandor