Genre Quotes

I love being an actor, and that's really the bottom line - in any medium, in any genre - and I want to do it.

B.B. King will be remembered for his impressive skills on the guitar, that King defined the blue genre.

I'm happy to try any genre, from drama to comedy and anything in between. Although, to be fair, for most of my career, I've been at the mercy of what people are willing to put me in.

Comics are not a genre, but a developing language.

I'm just looking for material that excites me more than any specific genre. It just needs to be good.

It's not about what you get out but what you put into hip hop as a genre.

For a writer, and particularly a writer of my genre, which is the fantastical, I think that it's to my advantage to feel remote from and disconnected from the world of deal making.

I just want to see a good movie. Fortunately, good movies come in all sorts of genres.

With every literary genre or form come some conventional expectations that the biblical authors either follow or deviate from.

The talk show, as a genre, has been in decline for a while. It started with Jerry Springer, when the talk shows suffered a metamorphosis, going from the real and social issues to the hair-raising.

I love suspense movies, because in a sense they're the most dreamlike of any genre, and I'm sure I'll make another one.

I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore.

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.

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.

I think a good director can embrace any genre and it's the kind of thing where you always want to do something different. You always want to challenge yourself.

I do think you learn things about genre storytelling, but you also have to be careful not to learn too much.

Whatever your favorite genre is, you can probably trace your love for it back to one single book that really moved you.

I am all about switching between genres and doing as much as possible.

Genre is a minimum security prison.

Bookstores never seem to know where to put me on the shelves. But I do. I love my genre and I love those writers, so I am happy to be considered a crime writer. That's what I consider myself.

J-Lo finally married into her own music genre. Crappy music.

At the end of the day, I like the spy genre, as opposed to the action movie genre, because spies are smart. The successful spies are the smarter spies.

Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning.

I do feel there's certainly some films where you can feel that the directors don't care about the genre and they don't care about their characters.

I love superheroes and I love weird horror films... I could definitely feel that there was a lack of movies like The Martian being made: smart genre movies that can appeal to adults.

I don't watch something just because it's a specific genre.

Graphic novel genre become really quite popular. It's really a big screen film genre that they have successfully moved into the small screen.

The goal [of mine] was always to work in as many different genres as I possibly could.

If there's a great story and great characters, then I can love a film in any genre, though crime thrillers and sci-fi have a particular soft spot in my heart.

Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural.

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

I never even considered comedy genre as something to embrace or move away from.

I don't tend to say it's time for one of this or that genre. Things flow to you in a strange way, and why you bump into a certain kind of thing in one moment is...it's hard to explain.

It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre.

I certainly realize that not only do I like the horror genre, but I'm getting really good at it and I'm having a good time making them.

Poetry is a popular genre in Afghanistan. If you turned on the radio, there would be a poetry program that would be as popular as The Real Housewives.

It seems like the Western genre has crept out of its casings during the last few years, and expanded to include books and movies we wouldn't originally have thought of as westerns.

I'm not staying away from any genre. I'm trying to get scripts that I like.

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.

I love space opera, and I believe that every sub-genre has potential no matter how old it is.

I don't know what genre I've fallen into, I don't know where it is, and that's really exciting.

What's great about documentary genre, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do a lot of diverse things under the umbrella of "documentary."

A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contrived images that usually stem from this genre.

My genre-hopping has caused problems with marketing and sales departments over the years, because they need to know where to position a book with the booksellers.

What some of the early horror genre masters knew, and what I know, is that the audience are perverts, but in the best possible way.

Horror is so often a 'thinkless' genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really put a lot of, not just heart and soul, but a lot of physical energy into it.

Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.

I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre.

I just want to be able to make a movie that takes some chances. I don't just want to do something that is purely stuck in a genre box.