Genre Quotes

When I did TV shows and my other movies, I never try to do it for anybody. I just do what I think is good no matter what the genre is.

I like to deconstruct things, deconstruct genres and stories.

A good song can be produced in several different genres.

I have been exposed to most musical genres and have learned how to tackle them effectively.

I think [Doctor Strange] it is - it does tap into a supernatural type of genre that is not horror.

I would describe my style of songwriting as classic. I learned very early on and have stuck to the core principles of song structure regardless of which genre I'm writing in.

I just love music, and I'm not as genre specific as most songwriters. A lot of my buddies just listen to country, or just Americana, or whatever their style is, and I just listen to everything.

When I walk in the door sometimes, I'm already an anomaly. Because I'm working in a genre that African-American's don't typically engage in.

ELANTRIS is a new BEN HUR for the fantasy genre, with a sweeping, epic storyline and closely personal characters.

Patrick Rothfuss gives us a fabulous debut, standing firmly on the main stage of the fantasy genre and needing no warm-up act. Jordan and Goodkind must be looking nervously over their shoulders!

A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom

The language of poetry is not stuck in place. Nothing can own language. I think, however, the genre of poetry itself is very feminine and motherly.

I tend to focus less on genre as a starting point and more on idea or intention and let the idea dictate genre.

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.

Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing.

I seem to like playing with form, and the superhero genre has an awful lot of formula to it. It has a lot of formula to it that I don't think it should be limited to.

It's always gonna be different when I make a record just because I kind of touch on every sort of genre.

Digging up graves is backbreaking work. So I just like that the genre of horror can embrace so many different styles and textures.

Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.

Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.

I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.

Marshall Jevons is the pioneer for integrating economics and detective fiction, and The Mystery of the Invisible Hand is another fine effort in this genre.

Being gone for so long and coming back into the game, I'm the type of person to reinvent myself pretty often and I can adapt to pretty much whatever genre is popping at the moment.

Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to sit at home in the suburbs and see what awful things go on in the cities.

Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know... It's just good entertainment.

I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures.

I don't exist to build a genre. I exist to build the Kingdom.

Genre categorization is a capitalist (rather than artistic) thing, a symptom of marketing and major-chain bookshelf placement.

In my writing classes, I don't outlaw any genre writing.

I'm a fantasy writer. I don't do SF. This is important to me. If you're not clear on what genre you're in, everything gets muddled, and it's hard to know which rules you're breaking.

It's just cool to do something different and branch out and dabble in different genres.

I came late to the genre of folk music.

I think that people like getting their money's worth, so it's cool to have a load of bands in a similar genre.

I love action films. It's my favorite genre.

I do think, even though I've made these genre movies, there's what happens in the movie and then there's what the movie's about. And for me, what the movie's about is so much more interesting.

People who come to see my movies, you're coming to see a drama masquerading as a genre piece.

I think as far as the action genre goes, I like when it has a sense of humor. I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.

I love seeing when actors go from one genre to the next because I feel like most of them can pull it off.

It's really hard to find just a simple character-driven drama, outside of a genre, that was available to direct, except for on TV.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

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.

It doesn't really matter what "genre" your book is. What matters is that it's a good book of its kind. Whatever that kind may be.

I was crazy about the song "Doot Doot," so I usually love this genre of weird, European electronic.

I watched a lot of cooking shows when I was younger on PBS and TLC and those channels. It's a very cool genre of television.

Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism dedicated to brushing the problem off.

I don't really worry about whether things fit into a genre or not, it's whether I like it and whether the two things sit well together, that's my main criteria when I write.

But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.

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.