Leon Eric Brooks III (Kix Brooks) Quotes

We went totally out of our genre to make sure we weren't doing the same old thing.

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• Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Way
  • Influence
  • Films

• Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Diversity
  • Fantasy
  • Genre

• I know, for me, 'Grease' was one of the first musicals that I can really remember watching as a kid, and I kind of fell in love that that genre.

  

  Jacob Artist
  • Love
  • Know
  • Genre

• Every era needs a genre through which it understands itself.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Needs
  • Through
  • Genre

• If I love the character, then that's all that matters to me. It doesn't really matter what genre it is.

  

  Olivia Cooke
  • Character
  • Matter
  • Genre

• Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Vote
  • Genre
  • Dislike

• I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Men
  • Job
  • Director

• It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Like
  • Wonderful
  • Interested

• I put things on shuffle a lot, which is probably why I don't have a very good idea of genre.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Good
  • Why
  • Ideas

• I ride really well and I shoot a gun really well. I love the genre. Once I did Westerns, I was hooked. I love them, but there's been very few of them made. I never wanted to play a guy who was acting like a cowboy. I wanted to play someone who had a real life, but was also trapped into situations.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Life
  • Real
  • Guy

• What bother me, not "bother me," exactly; that's not the right way to put it. But especially in the horror genre, once a movie like Paranormal Activity comes out and becomes popular - and that's a totally fine and valid movie - everyone starts copying it. Everything becomes a found-footage movie that looks like somebody shot it with their phone.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Movie
  • Popular
  • Looks

• The sea can bind us to her many moods, whispering to us by the subtle token of a shadow or a gleam upon the waves, and hinting in these ways of her mournfulness or rejoicing. Always she is remembering old things, and these memories, though we may not grasp them, are imparted to us, so that we share her gaiety or remorse.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • May
  • She
  • Memories

• Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Development
  • Add
  • Old Things

• If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Fiction
  • Gender
  • Genre

• I'm always ready to be challenged. Like, 'Wings: Outro,' it was hip-house. That was the first time I'd ever listened to that genre... but I liked it.

  

  Kim Nam-joon BTS
  • House
  • Genre
  • Challenged

• I love to get involved with projects that take me out of my comfort zone. I try to do things that are not necessarily what I'm used to. I always wanted to do a big animation movie and stick to the codes that this genre sometimes implies.

  

  Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla Bajofondo
  • Movie
  • Comfort
  • Genre

• Whatever your favorite genre is, you can probably trace your love for it back to one single book that really moved you.

  

  David Farland
  • Book
  • Moved
  • Genre

• The situation that women were in, at the time, was something that Dumas doesn't really go into, but it's a great subject to look at. It's a great genre because you can do a lot. Sometimes in thrillers, you can really explore things, and it's the same in this genre.

  

  Adrian Hodges
  • Explore
  • Genre
  • Look At

• I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Time
  • Play
  • Find

• After four years since the beginning of the tragedy in the Balkans, we have to recognize the painful fact that this conflict has brought nothing but grief, suffering and destruction, ... There have been no winners in this war, nor could there have been any. Everyone has lost -- the Serbs, the Croats, the Muslims and Europe as a whole.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • War
  • Lost
  • Beginning

• For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color." - Ernest Hemingway.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Eye
  • Color
  • Gold

• We must be an inclusive nation that respects and supports all of its citizens: a nation that doesn't give up on anyone who hasn't given up on themselves.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Up
  • Nation
  • Give

• We went totally out of our genre to make sure we weren't doing the same old thing.

  

  Leon Eric Brooks III Brooks & Dunn
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