Genre Quotes · Page 26

“This is a little parable about cities and genres; how, while some of them lose their imaginative centrality, others take their place.”

— Amit Chaudhuri

What I love more than anything is Jerry Goldsmith's 80's music and Bernard Herrmann's genre music from the 50's and 60's.

— Bear McCreary

I think my genre is in the pop world because I love catchy melodies, but it's a rough kind of pop.

— G Flip

It's important to listen to lots of different genres because you never know when something will get born out of it.

— David Lynch

Trap is being added to everything. It seems like every genre wants that bit of trap to what they're doing.

— Zaytoven

My favorites are songs that I get an emotional charge from, whatever genre they're in.

— Colm Wilkinson

I'll read anything that's good. I have no artificial barriers based on genre.

— Greg Iles

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

— Julianna Baggott

“What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of…

— Orson Scott Card

'Jurassic Park' movies don't fit into a specific genre. They're sci-fi adventures that also have to be funny, emotional, and scary as…

— Colin Trevorrow

I don't really look at genre. I mean, sometimes you might be playing heavies a lot, and you're like, 'Hey, it'd be…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Graphic novel genre become really quite popular. It's really a big screen film genre that they have successfully moved into the small…

— Dustin Clare

Horror has been a genre since the beginning of cinema, all the way back to the days of silent films. I don't…

— John Carpenter

Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be…

— John Clute

I don't want to just make relationship movies. I would love to do whatever feels like it's important and timely and needs…

— Daryl Wein

[With] this show [This Is Us], I don't think I was seeking something outside of the world I'd always played in so…

— Milo Ventimiglia

[Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up - of…

— Emily Barton

My advice for aspiring writers is threefold.First, read as much as possible, both within and outside the genre you arem working in.…

— Vera Nazarian

Every time a new rock singer comes out they don't say, 'Are you the new John Lennon?' Every time a new rapper…

— Michael Buble

What I try to do is reinvigorate strategies and clichés I find in Hollywood movies. At a certain point I had these…

— John Baldessari

As for whether genre considerations influence what I write, they don't at all, but I might sell more books if they did.…

— Elizabeth Crook

I had an idea for a medical conspiracy thriller. Since it was non-horror, I didn't want the publishers and editors bringing a…

— F. Paul Wilson

I dont have a favorite genre. I love to work and live vicariously through every character. Its all about trying to bring…

— Catherine Mary Stewart

What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attention to literature as…

— Terry Eagleton

I want to do everything related to music. Every genre, every style I want to compose.

— Ankit Tiwari

I don't have any issue with any genre. That does not bother me. Thank god for that.

— Arshad Warsi

I try to just be the person I am, with a lot of sensitivity to the genre in which I'm playing.

— Edgar Meyer

Nashville has become sort of this go-to writing city for every genre.

— Maren Morris

I put things on shuffle a lot, which is probably why I don't have a very good idea of genre.

— Oliver Sim

To me, as a musician, there aren't any boundaries genre-wise as far as what can you listen to to inspire you.

— John Legend

I have created a new genre. It is a soulful creation that comes straight from my heart.

— Kailash Kher

I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.

— Alison McGhee

I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books or was a horror buff.

— Chad Lindberg

I'm just starting to take some more voice lessons but hell no, I'll always stick into the hip-hop genre.

— SonReal

I get bored with music so I try to listen to things in different types of genre to see what's possible.

— Madlib

I always think it's a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.

— Cillian Murphy

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

— Sam Mendes

The spy genre is something which, as a fan of movies, a movie geek myself, I just love that cinematic joy that…

— Pierce Brosnan

I would love to collaborate on a graphic novel with an artist - I'm terrible at drawing but I really love that…

— Matthea Harvey

Apne' was a good film and there was no film like this in the sports genre.

— Dharmendra