Genre Quotes

At its core, 'Heroes' is an ensemble character drama with genre elements.

I would love to collaborate on a graphic novel with an artist - I'm terrible at drawing but I really love that genre.

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!"

There's been so many different types of musicals and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.

I'm such a huge fan of the horror genre and the supernatural elements... There was something that happened to me. It was easy to be wild and crazy, and just let go and attack people.

When I was in college, I had a friend who was an artist and her theory was that all the best art in the world is funny/sad. That was her favorite genre. Funny/sad are probably my two favorite tones.

This is a tried and true genre directed by a guy who's famous for character work. This could take a genre picture and lift it and elevate it. That was my thinking.

To me genres were always an imaginary things, they're just marketing channels.

Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.

James McMurtry is a true Americana poet - actually he is a poet regardless of genre

My advice is to write about what you are interested in. If you read science fiction and fantasy, then write in that genre. If you read romance novels, then try writing one.

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

I reject the concept that comic books in movies are a genre. I have been fighting that for many years, with the powers-that-be in Hollywood.

The horror genre has been for me an original way of taking an explicit visual and visionary approach to directing.

Maybe I exclude myself from that genre by not getting dressed up often enough, by acting ghetto most of the time, and running around in sweats and Timberlands.

I feel like R&B as a genre has become a caricature of itself.

I think when you're on TV, once you become associated with one genre or the other, it's near impossible to break into the other one, even if you have experience with both.

I think, especially when you're on TV, once you become associated with one genre or the other, it's near impossible to break into the other one, even if you have experience with both.

Podiobooks rules. It's still the best way I know to find an audience for longer works in any genre.

Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on.

I feel like you should always be questioning the genre you're doing. If you're doing something that sounds like a lullaby, it can be good to make it about someone stalking someone.

What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.

There are no authors in my genre. No one is doing what I do.

I love the romantic comedy genre. It's a genre rich with many of the best movies ever made and I try to treat it with the respect that Shakespeare treated it with.

I would agree Paul is a sci-fi genre movie. And a road movie.

I always find myself pulled back into the fantasy genre, and I can't really explain it.

I think a good movie is a good movie whether that falls into a genre or not.

I sometimes play different kinds of music to see where the performers end up. I play one genre. Then something else when I do it again. It really helps.

Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get down with a bit of hip hop.

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.

I love making genre films. It's something I've really been attracted to since I was a kid, mostly because, as a kid, it was forbidden fruit.

I don't believe any genre of music can be unilaterally dismissed (aside from like, white-power music or something).

I'm so beyond genre, drama, comedies, I just want to do really good, interesting projects.

To me some of the funniest movies would be probably categorized in the dramatic genre, and likewise some of the most dramatic films, or films that have the most dramatic moments, are in comedies.

From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior aspects of life took an almost excessive place.

It's hard to put my music in a specific genre, but if you had to, "instrumental cyber metal" would be an accurate one.

I feel like movies should stick to a genre and give the audience what they want, and then surprise them with the unexpected, and not just do the same thing you've always seen.

Motion-capture is not a genre. Motion-capture is a tool and technique and what we tried to do was to really use both motion-capture and traditional animation to build a system.

I'm not sure what kept me from the mainstream. I thought it was because I was too hard to pin down genre-wise.

I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of genre.

I put things on shuffle a lot, which is probably why I don't have a very good idea of genre.

I am not married to any particular genre. I am more interested in projects that capture my imagination and move me in a way that I can spend a year of my life working on it.

I have really diverse tastes, which can be problematic sometimes, but it's good because it means I'm always listening to as much music as possible. I love listening to music, whatever genre it is.

Medical-genre shows have been around forever, they will be around forever, and I think this [Code Black] is a great iteration of the next generation.

I just like movies, not one particular kind or genre. In fact, movies that are harder to classify I like more.

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

Because I am known in the horror genre now, I try and do at least one horror movie a year for my fans, my fans have been so good to me.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But there is always a time and a place for the subsets within genres.

I love the idea that all genres can have subsets.

I do genre films because I like them, or because I need the money.