The ""Western"" is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.
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I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema.
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From now on, I approach the cinema as a business woman. I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre.
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The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.
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I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.
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It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.
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I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood.
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Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.
I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.
Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.
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I'm a working actor so I never really pick a film because of a genre, and I don't really turn them down because of genre. Anything that's unlike the picture I just finished is always more interesting.
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Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.
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A cinema-goer from Preston
Who loved a good drama, or western,
Sat glued to his chair
But would curse and would swear
If ejected, for having no vest on.
(Written Oct 2012)
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As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.
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I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time.
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I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.
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To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.
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I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.
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I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, it's just moviemaking.
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Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.
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Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others.
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