Character Quote by Michael Chiklis

I take very seriously that challenge of trying to do genre films - but elevated genre films.

— John Hillcoat

I think that in making a genre movie, you have a really great opportunity to use abstraction to allow the audience to project their…

— Miles Robbins

I've never fallen into what I consider to be a trap of trying to figure out something analytically that could be a very popular…

— Jonathan Demme

If I could remake any Eighties project, it would be less an action flick than a character-driven drama with a rich story to tell.

— Omari Hardwick

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 don't think film is the writer's medium, and so I was interested to see what a director would do with it.

— Daniel Handler

It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.

— Laura Dern

I am a big fan of action films and I want to make one in this genre.

— Ravi Babu

I don't really think in terms of genre, I think in terms of story and character.

— Paul Rudd

It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're meant to…

— Ava DuVernay

I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

I enjoyed Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom.' Would I make that into a film? I think it's better suited to television. That would very much be…

— Peter Weir