Genre Quotes

I don't just want to do something that is purely stuck in a genre box. I would like to have the kind of autonomy...

Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.

As a genre-bending blend of police procedural and science fiction, The Silk Code delivers on its promises.

If Im going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.

There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.

My favorite kinds of stories are the ones that have these big crazy genre hijinks and then a real honest, meaty, emotional story where we're watching a character grapple with some real things.

Pop music is the one genre that isn't a genre. If the kids like it, then that's what defines it as pop music. Pop music is just something new.

Sometime female characters, especially in the genre of something that people consider rom-com, make mistakes in a cute way or they're a mess in a way that's palatable. I like that.

I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.

Democracy will defeat the economist at every turn on its own genre.

I met someone who said they'd figured out my genre: "madcap redemption comedy." I'll buy that.

The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.

I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a ghostwriter has been to elevate that form. Maybe that sounds pretentious!

There are so many music genres competing against each other, but I feel like country music has always been a unified front.

A divinely expressed performance in any genre sets me completely on fire.

I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart.

I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the inevitability is part of the fun. Whatever the genre happens to be.

Superhero stories are kind of in my DNA from childhood on, so I think I'm genetically drawn to playing in the genre when the opportunity presents itself.

A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.

Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different ways. They are very close cousins.

I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

What interests me about genre is that the public connects immediately with it, it has certain rules, certain codes the audience recognizes. I can use that to create something very big.

Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe a genre is for satirizing, unless you know how to do it, there are no guarantees.

Down the road a bit, I would like to write a couple of stand-alone adult novels, especially in the horror genre. I've got lots of things up my sleeve.

I don't think I will write anything that could be even remotely considered a genre novel from this point on. I think I've graduated.

I think it was the sense that Turn is a spy thriller, and that's a genre that really fascinates me, in general.

Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer.

Action comedy, if you can get it right, it is, for me, a particularly brilliant genre. It really is.

I'm eager to do movies of different genres. I would love to not be confined by genre and do a lot of different things.

I have the death sentence in seven genres.

In the meantime [1963-65], [Bob] Dylan was writing some of the best love songs in the genre, like "Girl From the North Country," "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright," and "It Ain't Me, Babe."

I don't stay in the genre because I just like all stories that have a smart hook in them and I can find a comic way through if it's a comedy or a suspenseful way through it if it's a drama.

I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.

When you think of dog movies, that genre, Old Yeller is sort of the benchmark and you hope that you can raise your game up to that.

When you're outside of genre, you can expose more vulnerability.

I like to think about the genre, the essay or the memoir, as much as I enjoy writing within its fluid parameters. And teaching allows me to think about it, to articulate it, and to explore it.

I do always like to do things I haven't done before, so I'm always looking out for things in a different genre, or a different sort of character.

Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.

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.

My dad brings a deep-seated knowledge of the British folk genre, and a lot of my love for guitar playing comes from learning from him and his influences, which eventually became my influences.

There is no real kind of specific genre of cost of movies.

Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a horror story.

In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be a little off-kilter.

I do love genres, but I love finding new ways into the genre, or making that world fresh again.

As a genre, videogames take our minds on journeys, and we can control and experience them much more interactively than passively - especially when they are well-designed.

I think what you have to do is have a box office success in every genre and then you're set for life. And fortunately, I happened to do that, so I get a myriad of offers of various sorts.

Now chart music is a genre all of its own and it's slipped away from what I understand pop music as. It's pretty difficult to take; it clogs up the airwaves.

'Get Out' takes on the task of exploring race in America, something that hasn't really been done within the genre since 'Night of the Living Dead' 47 years ago.

I think movies should illuminate and teach, but that's for a certain genre.

Genres give a vocabulary. They give a frame of reference for the audience to enter into a movie. Then, once they have their footing, that's when you can start doing things that they don't expect.