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Growing up in the eighties, you could go from one style in a movie to another style, and that was okay. In the nineties, you had to obey your niche. You had to follow the code and never step outside of exactly what you're doing.

— Alexandre Aja

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.

— Tom Ford

The fact that I made a special movie with an old-fashioned style - even if it's a mix between with modern and old-fashioned things - must mean I feel both ways about change. In a way I'm resisting, but in a way adapting myself to the times.

— Michel Hazanavicius

When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.

— Quentin Tarantino

I was able to make many different kinds of movies. They enriched me on many different levels.

— Andrew Lau

In Hollywood it's really tough to change genres; you have to re-prove yourself.

— Drew Daywalt

When I say that I am going to do an American film, I didn't want to suddenly go off into a completely different world that which bears no relation to the style of filmmaking that I'm used to.

— Park Chan-wook

My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days.

— Kapil Sharma

I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.

— Malcolm Mclaren

I intend to be making films until I'm an old lady. So, if God willing I get there, I need to create a paradigm for myself where I can make it regardless of whether or not they still like what I'm making.

— Ava DuVernay

✗Opposing Perspectives

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.

— Danny Boyle