I chose to stylize 'Among Friends' and add a dark comedic element because I didn't want to get pigeonholed as a genre director. I have a pretty dark sense of humor and knew that in order to get distribution, I had to do something in the genre for my first time out.
The cool thing about being different in this industry is that you get different roles; you aren't pigeonholed the same way.
I've tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.
I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
After 'Radio Flyer,' to this day, every family-oriented script or script with kid actors comes across my desk. That's just Hollywood: you get pigeonholed, and it's both a blessing and a curse, but you live with it.
I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to pigeonhole people, and there's nothing an actor loves more than to do something different.
R&B needs to see a new light. It doesn't have to be pigeonholed.
It was different to what everyone else was doing. It was very hard to pigeonhole The Cranberries. And we were just huge; it was just sensational.
When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.
We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor.
