Genre Quotes
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Genre Quotes & Sayings
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'Fringe' is a sci-fi show. But once you go beyond the genre, you're immersed in a profound reality.
— Anna Torv
No one worries about genre when they're dancing. They're not asking themselves, 'Is this song a dubstep song?'
— Skrillex
(Visibility makes possible, but it also disciplines: disciplines gender, disciplines genre.)
— Maggie Nelson
Major differences in projects happen due to budget, director's styles, and genre of script, not industry.
— Tena Desae
This a work of f(r)iction, where fact and fiction rub up against each other, and nobody wants to know it regardless.
— Bob N. Boguslavski
I think I've never really liked the idea of genre, a film that follows the rules of a genre.
— Nicolas Roeg
I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.
— P.D. James
It's crazy to close doors to any genres.
— David Lynch
I think that people like getting their money's worth, so it's cool to have a load of bands in a similar genre.
— Tim Lambesis
I don't know, just scripts randomly appeal to me. I'm not looking specifically at any genre.
— Robert Pattinson
I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre.
— Gemma Chan
Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught yet!
— Sara Sheridan
One of the mistakes I made was believing that the rock n' roll genre as a genre was much more free than the whole pop or R&B scene.
— Joan Jett
I am too old to have ever been very worried about what "genre" any given book of mine might be. I read everything. I am easily amused.
— Margaret Atwood
My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films.
— Mary Harron
'Slow West' is a western, and it's sort of a twist on the genre stylistically, I think, from what I understand going in.
— Ben Mendelsohn
I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre.
— Natalie Portman
I don't care about the genre so much. I'm good with horror, but I like other genres, too.
— Bruce Campbell
Don't let society's defined genre hold you down, be a free spirit and just write, let society be the one to decide where each piece fits in.
— Uma Nnenna
I guess one thing that makes my music stand out is that it is quite hard to determine what genre it is.
— Seinabo Sey
My dream artists to collaborate with are probably Cee Lo Green and Imogen Heap. They're completely out of my genre but they're both musical geniuses.
— Kina Grannis
I'm not really a zombie genre guy; I'm not particularly versed in it. Doing 'The Walking Dead' sort of turned me on to the whole thing.
— Noah Emmerich
I like to read as much as I can from every genre. That way, I can express my love for all writers.
— Jen Selinsky
I'm looking for stories that make me sit up and take notice. For engagement with language and style in ways that the genre doesn't see enough of.
— Nalo Hopkinson
I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes horror.
— Kirk Hammett
In novelas, sometimes you get the most ridiculous situations, but you make the best of it. But novelas are a very special genre.
— Genesis Rodriguez
I've never seen the first three 'Star Wars' movies. It's just not really my genre.
— Sendhil Ramamurthy
People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.
— Matthew Vaughn
Shadowchild! - Don't let her get in your head!
— Matthew Williams
I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.
— Leslie Banks
I read so much science fiction when I was young. I believe science fiction is the genre for exploration and to learn about possibilities via book.
— Bob Mayer
There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.
— Miranda Lambert
I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.
— Robert Englund
I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.
— Charlie Kaufman
Life isn't divided into genres
— Alan Moore
Jim Rollins is the king of the weird science action genre.
— Jonathan Maberry
If something comes along that is totally outside of horror, fine, but I find there's an immense amount of freedom within the genre.
— Wes Craven
My dad was on 'Zombieland,' and I love that movie. So yeah, I think I like the horror genre!
— Chandler Riggs
I love OneRepublic, The Script, All Time Low. I love pretty much every genre. I love the Rolling Stones and Elvis.
— Ross Lynch
In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.
— Carter Burwell
My music is not a particular genre. It's not bubblegum or cheese. It's just good songs, pop songs. It's just my songs.
— Eliza Doolittle
What's fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.
— Steven Strait
I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
— Gail Carriger
Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.
— Steven Van Zandt
I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die.
— Roberta Williams
I came late to the genre of folk music.
— Tom Morello
I felt slightly snobby about the genre. My pre-conceived notion of the comic book world had been: "Oh, that's nothing that I need to worry about!"
— Matthew William Goode
I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.
— Ben Lerner
feel like I've never really been beholden to any genre. FOB's kind of changed on every record
— Patrick Stump
The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
— Jose Saramago
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.
— Guillermo Del Toro
For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
— Taylor Swift
If I had a dime for every time I heard someone say that they're tired of a genre (zombies) because it's only a fad, I'd be rich. #DeadRising
— Ace Antonio Hall
ELANTRIS is a new BEN HUR for the fantasy genre, with a sweeping, epic storyline and closely personal characters.
— Kevin J. Anderson
As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!
— George A. Romero
Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.
— Paul Di Filippo
Everyone who writes in the sub-genre of Victorian mystery stands in [Sir Arthur Conan] Doyle's shadow.
— Will Thomas
The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.
— Brion James
I don't mind genre names. "Chillwave" is probably the last thing I would think of, but I don't mind it.
— Chaz Bundick
I'm very rarely interested in genres. As long as I feel I can put my DNA out there in the ideology, it works for me.
— Tarsem Singh
While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.
— Charles Stross
I've always been into the horror genre, so I've seen a lot of movies with ghosts and supernatural stuff.
— Meaghan Rath
I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
— Valorie Curry
In some ways we want definitions that can help protect our own interpretations of the genre.
— John D'Agata
A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.
— Vikas Swarup
The funny thing about me is I move from genre to genre, but I essentially shoot all the movies the same way.
— James Mangold
The spy genre is something which, as a fan of movies, a movie geek myself, I just love that cinematic joy that they bring.
— Pierce Brosnan
My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.
— Danny Strong
Theres a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the genre you have a chance of breaking that cycle.
— Danny Boyle
Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.
— Susan Wiggs
Good horror offers a sense of an upended, lawless world and that's appealing to anyone who grew up feeling like an outsider.
— Christopher Rice
A lot of singers find a musical genre people like and stick with it. That's being a conformist. I sing ballads, rock, salsa, rap.
— Thalia
A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing.
— Chris Jericho
I think I've learned more about Baroque music than any other genre.
— Joyce DiDonato
Each genre and part of the Old Testament looks toward Christ and informs us about who he is in some way that the others do not.
— Timothy Keller
The genre [of hard-partying girls] seems to have gone out of style - instead of young women who drink too much, it's young women who don't eat enough.
— Amy Argetsinger
I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.
— Jonathan Lethem
My focus is to not focus too much on one genre.
— Amanda Seyfried
At the end of the day, I'm writing in a genre that isn't highly regarded.
— Philippa Gregory
I've never really been into the sci-fi genre myself.
— Marie Avgeropoulos
Y.A. wasn't really a specific genre when I was fifteen, but if it was, I would probably have shunned it; I was a huge snob.
— Kathe Koja
Know your genre. Know your history. Read a book.
— Brian Keene
All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.
— Charles J. Shields
Do you have to stop being you in order to write in a different genre? Think on it...it's in the name.
— Stephen D. Matthews
Realism isn't something most people associate with the fantasy genre, yet it's an essential element of great fantasy writing.
— Lynn Flewelling