Genre Quotes · Page 14

I bow down to the altar of genre, because it allowed me to get 'The Witch' financed.

— Robert Eggers

I take very seriously that challenge of trying to do genre films - but elevated genre films.

— John Hillcoat

People can't look down on grime anymore, it's an established British genre.

— Dizzee Rascal

The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.

— Stanislaw Lem

The horror genre is important because it promotes experimentation in filmmaking.

— Richard King

Music has a way where it moves, regardless of the genre, to progress.

— Koffee

For me, there's something about a certain kind of genre film that has real potency in its emotional landscape.

— Karyn Kusama

Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful…

— Simone Elkeles

There's always your initial trepidation about doing a remake, but that was alleviated by the fact that it was a prequel. Immediately,…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Be true to what you want to say, or whatever style it is that you've chosen or genre you've chosen. Do it…

— John Hurt

I'm a working actor so I never really pick a film because of a genre, and I don't really turn them down…

— David Keith

I would love a little bit of a change. I feel so fortunate to have been able to work so much, particularly…

— Danielle Panabaker

I want everything, no matter what concept or genre, to feel real, because it is real. I want to keep making real…

— Alessia Cara

Science fiction is an untouched genre as far as Indian cinema is concerned. 'Mangal Ho' is a beginning of this genre and…

— Sanjay Mishra

I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories?…

— Jennifer Egan

I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have…

— Chip Kidd

I've been searching for a genre that would be most adequate to my vision of the world to convey how my ear…

— Svetlana Alexievich

“Singling out “women’s fiction” for genre derision never fails to piss me off. Somehow worse when women do it. Case in pt:…

— Kelley Armstrong

Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and…

— Elliott Sharp

Artists are creating their own genre sound, and other artists are building upon that sound and already creating a huge subculture created…

— Steve Aoki

There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever…

— Gary Gygax

There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the…

— Michael Eric Dyson

All in all, I think that out of all musical genres, the world of metal is the most escapist one. Metal is…

— Tuomas Holopainen

I've always thought that "punk" wasn't really a genre. My band started in Olympia where K Records was and K Records put…

— Kathleen Hanna

Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die...

— Margaret Drabble

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

— Katee Sackhoff

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

— Tom Peters

Getting back into the action genre is like going back home. It's great.

— Dwayne Johnson

From a genre perspective and a character perspective, you know, sky's the limit.

— Malik Yoba

I have always touched on different genres whether it has been hip-hop, country and the rock element.

— Kid Rock

The kind of actors I admire move through different characters and genres.

— Andrew Scott

I don't want to restrict myself to one particular genre of films. I like to experiment.

— Regina Cassandra

I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War.

— Robyn Davidson

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

— John Hillcoat

I really enjoy working in genre series, because you really have to create the characters.

— J. August Richards

Genre boundaries are good for marketing but they all but disappear when you're a player.

— Esperanza Spalding

I love all types of music, and I think the genre lines are starting to get thinner every year.

— Maren Morris

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

— Jacob Lawrence

With 'Mismatched,' we hope to bring back the Young Adult drama/ teenage drama genre.

— Rohit Saraf

“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.”

— Kamand Kojouri