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Robert Zemeckis: Back to the Future is a comedy, adventure, science-fiction time travel love story.
Bob Gale: It's just got everything in it.
Michael J. Fox: Yeah, it's an action comedy adventure coming-of-age film. Musical.
The Movies that Made Us

"Sleepless Domain is a double reverse dark magical deconstructed reconstruction reclamation hope punk go to therapy things are tough but you can do it magical girl story."

"It's felt like a few people have met our arrival with a degree of skepticism. [Joywave] isn't lo-fi enough for indie, and it's not slick enough for Top 40. Is it a band? Is it not a band? It doesn't fit neatly into a pre-existing box, so there must be something wrong, right?"

Nothing quite like the cue, "The Aunties," exists in film music, much less animation, and for that alone, Göransson deserves credit.
Filmtracks review of the score of Turning Red

Am I country, pop, or rock and roll? I know they are related....
Jimmy Buffett, "Simply Complicated"

"One of the things we tried to do with the show was to try and do something that was so unpredictable that it had no shape and you could never say what the kind of humor was. And I think that the fact that 'Pythonesque' is now a word in the Oxford English Dictionary shows the extent to which we failed."
Terry Jones at the US Comedy Arts Festival, 1998

"Genre is an artifact of a time when music cost money, and people had finite amounts of cash, and needed guidelines to help them decide where to spend it. It has nothing to do with the current music scene where rock is country, country is pop, pop is indy, and rap is somehow not pop despite being more popular than everything else. These genres have no definition anymore, and it used to be that if it was unclear, you could identify songs genre by what radio stations it was on, but the radio stations only played like five songs now, and no one listens to them."
Todd in the Shadows talking about the controversy over Old Town Road


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