Genre Quotes · Page 22

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

— Chuck D

There is no pop category, let alone any infinitely gene-sliced genre name, to contain the lead in Rihanna's voice in 'Needed Me.'

— Greil Marcus

I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.

— Victoria Justice

Umm, it can be a challenge when you're jumping from genre to genre. However, I find that genre hopping is actually very…

— Bear McCreary

Even in 2014, when romance heroes are as varied as their genre, somewhere in them you can still always find the alpha male.

— Sarah MacLean

A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.

— Thomas M. Disch

What I did with Slash and the Conspirators was a very different kind of music. Genre-wise, it is a step in a…

— Myles Kennedy

I feel really lucky that, in my career, I've gotten a chance to explore a lot of different genres and kinds of…

— Ali Larter

The internet helps with information exchange in general so it's obviously easier to check out tracks and whatnot from different genres. I…

— Girl Talk

I started as a black-and-white teenage photographer, and I'm still there decades after. In some ways, the genre is almost gone. I…

— Hedi Slimane

I think the one thing specifically that is most consistent, is that we want to harken back to martial arts movies because…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I chose to stylize 'Among Friends' and add a dark comedic element because I didn't want to get pigeonholed as a genre…

— Danielle Harris

I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi…

— Mahershala Ali

I wasn't a fan of horror movies before 'Saw,' but through these films, I have definitely become a big fan and really…

— Shawnee Smith

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at…

— Carter Burwell

Good genre movies are a little bit like trying to write a haiku. There are certain things that you have to do…

— Ethan Hawke

I don't like to put tags on my music. I leave that to others. Seems like some people see me as the…

— Hans-Peter Lindstrøm

I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category.…

— Lois Lowry

When you're a young writer and you look at people praising a big hefty anthology that has uncovered a long lost genre,…

— John D'Agata

I guess I didn't even know the word 'genre' until I did 'True Blood.' That's how naive I was, and I didn't…

— Denis O'Hare

“[SF] was a commercial genre born in the old adventure pulp magazines of the first third of the twentieth century, aimed primarily…

— Norman Spinrad

I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some…

— Michel Hazanavicius

There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock n' roll in soul, there's rock n'…

— John Varvatos

One of the difficult things of making a horror sequel in general is because the horror genre is so founded on surprise.

— Ehren Kruger

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

— Chris Matthews

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

— William H. Gass

The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the…

— Ben Wheatley

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

— Tim Lambesis

What I like about the 'Underworld' thing is that it's a mix of cool genres, as well as creating its own message.

— Theo James

I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater.

— Joseph Gatt

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

— Bonnie Raitt

There's something about the comic book genre that I think is so cool and artsy and unique. It's not like anything else.

— Juliana Harkavy

It'll die down like every other genre, but horror has always been one of the four or five main genres that will…

— Bruce Campbell

I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

— Quentin Tarantino

The ghost story is a popular genre of mine and is particularly adaptable to the visual media.

— Ruskin Bond

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love,…

— George A. Romero

Swavey is a musical genre that I came up with to describe artists who are too talented to stay in a box…

— Tory Lanez

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

— Malin Akerman

I'm not a huge fan of horror movies, but I like a few within the genre.

— HoYeon Jung