Genre Quotes · Page 23

I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes horror.

— Kirk Hammett

I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre…

— Alan Furst

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

— Miguel

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

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

With 'Carol,' I was just really looking at and thinking about the love story as a genre, not the domestic melodrama.

— Todd Haynes

At a time when mythologicals were considered obsolete, Devon Ke Dev Mahadev' revived the genre.

— Mohit Raina

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

— Julianna Baggott

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

— Jamie Bell

It's difficult to make the interesting feature films that don't fit easily into a genre, even on modest budgets. It's tough to…

— Julian Jarrold

I don't believe in landing on one genre. That's too limiting. I don't think about that when I'm writing and recording. I…

— Brooke Waggoner

I've always found that whatever you say about indie rock, it is the most inclusive genre or title for anything. It doesn't…

— Andrew Bird

I could rap really good on accident. I talk tight and it just sounded... I don't know. It's just such a big…

— Goldlink

I knew I wanted to play around with genre-esque imagery, and the identity theft stuff came in the middle, when I was…

— Dan Chaon

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…

— Drew Goddard

Comedy's my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn't really change…

— Emma Stone

For a writer, and particularly a writer of my genre, which is the fantastical, I think that it's to my advantage to…

— Clive Barker

'New' movies are almost always hipper, faster, they mix genres aggressively, they smother their genre origins in new form, there are fewer…

— Stephen Hunter

I do believe there's been a lull of slasher films. There have been a few that I guess would fall under the…

— Kevin D. Williamson

I wrote, I think, half a dozen films that were completely out of genre. Comedies, love stories, even one serious film about…

— Wes Craven

The book is about zombies, in that it is the over-arching theme, but what's going on is the story of these people…

— Steven Yeun

I love a good harsh horror movie, when it's done well. But there are times when it feels cynical. You can tell…

— Drew Goddard

Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror…

— Kealan Patrick Burke

Repetitiveness is one of the things that's most difficult to get away from in genre pictures, because people come specifically to see…

— Joe Dante

But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and…

— Pete Townshend

The horror genre has been for me an original way of taking an explicit visual and visionary approach to directing.

— Michele Soavi

I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably…

— Lynn Abbey

Comedy is important, and I do not want to end up being recognised for just one genre.

— Pankaj Tripathi

The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.

— Amy Adams

In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be…

— John D'Agata

I think country music is really one of the biggest genres of music out there and one the most successful genres.

— Tim McGraw

I just wanted to make melodies. I started trying to do my own thing and let the melodies make the genre themselves.

— Kygo

I think my genre is more 'reality rap'; I talk about my life and the struggles that I've been through.

— Tee Grizzley

I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.

— Eric Brown

I don't care what genre is offered to me... be it comedy or not. For me, it can be anything as long…

— Sunny Singh

It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.

— Andrew Scott

If I love the character, then that's all that matters to me. It doesn't really matter what genre it is.

— Olivia Cooke

Romance is the most read genre of fiction in the world - but people always undermine it.

— Nicola Coughlan

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

— Vikas Swarup

“Urban Fantasy is the orphan left on the doorstep that no-one knows what to do with.”

— Tracy Cooper-Posey

Quality is subjective. There are quality blockbusters; there are quality versions of every genre and it doesn't necessarily mean money.

— Rufus Sewell