Movie Categorization Quotes

I'm in the process of trying to organize my DVDs into some kind of order and it's taking me weeks. I have everything from obscure 'Antonioni' to 'Terminator Salvation.'

I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

People keep referring to 'Sing Street' as a musical, but I really never felt it was that. I can't really define it as a musical.

Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know... It's just good entertainment.

It has been said that I make chick flicks. This is not a compliment.

I've never been attracted to sci-fi per se. People tell me I'm in a genre kind of movie, but it never crossed my mind that 'The Matrix' was genre.

I had decided after 'Hollow Man' to stay away from science fiction. I felt I had done so much science fiction. Four of the six movies I made in Hollywood are science-fiction oriented, and even 'Basic Instinct' is kind of science fiction.

There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie.

If you want to do 'Sword & Sandals' movies, people think that means it equals 'epic.'

A film like 'Kai Po Che!', 'Queen', 'Behen Hogi Teri' and 'Bareilly Ki Barfi' are not really independent films.

I don't like to label films with a genre.

I just hate when things get labeled as "black movies." I don't say, "Oh, this weekend, I want to see an all-white movie," or "I want to see a black movie." I just go to a movie because I saw the previews and I relate to it. I want to see it because the previews look interesting.