Genre Quotes

It's cool to play a vampire and be a part of this new, hot genre.

Getting to do different genres of movies means you're gonna have different types of situations. So I want to try and do every type of genre there is out there.

I love all genres. The only thing I get stymied by is the Family Drama. I don't necessarily know how to approach that.

The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations.

Genre/forms are institutional questions mainly. Like matter to MFA programs in terms of which workshop you can teach.

I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

One of the reasons I write in different genres is that I get to have the feeling - even fleetingly - that I'm not just writing like Baggott again. I can escape myself.

Each genre has something to teach me about the others. Not all the lessons are transferable, but many of the most important ones are.

I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.

Being cross-genre, you can encounter an image and decide not only how to best express it but what form would express it best.

You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.

The great thing about working on a genre show is that you can basically have a season finale where every character is left destroyed, and then hit the reset button and come back for the next season.

Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre.

I try not to define my own music. I think we are the only ones in the genre that's of our own creation.

I am a voracious reader myself. I don't stick to one genre. My only criteria is that it's a good story. I try to bring that to my work because I think people can read your excitement about a story.

I'm not comfortable with categorizing my own work, but I don't mind if others talk about it in relation to genre as long as they don't try to hold it up to some genre standard.

Some of my other stories are talked about as fantasy, some as horror, and some aren't talked about as genre at all. And the same story will be labeled differently depending on country.

I don't go out of my way to write Weird Fiction, or in any other genre. Some of my stuff easily slips into the Weird slot.

I don't consider genre while writing.

Horror films and genre films are interesting, because I always look for a deeper meaning or a deeper theme in the film.

Horror movies scare me. I don't really watch them. I'm not a big horror genre fan. I like certain classic horror - like 'Alien', 'Jaws', 'The Exorcist', stuff like that.

As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics.

I love doing horror with comedy twists and I think it's a really fun genre.

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Everything changes in every genre, whether it's pop, rock or country.

My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films.