“I don't pick my roles by genre; that's kind of silly.” — Michael Shannon Quote

I don't pick my roles by genre; that's kind of silly.

Everybody's constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.

If you give me enough time, enough leash, I can become pretty reasonable.

I've never worried about anything in my life a fraction of the way I worry about my daughter. It's much more than hoping people like the play you're in, or that your outfit doesn't look bad. It's the real deal.

Everything that happens on Wall Street only fortifies my opinion that there is in fact a more ludicrous industry than the entertainment industry.

Genre mechanics are really tricky because if you pay too much attention to the idea of rules of genre, it becomes pretty stale, pretty fast.

I knew after 'Sarah Marshall' that my favorite genre is romantic comedy. Nothing is more satisfying than a great romantic comedy.

I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War.

I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.