Genre Quotes · Page 27

Podiobooks rules. It's still the best way I know to find an audience for longer works in any genre.

— Nathan Lowell

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

I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think,…

— Jean M. Auel

Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So…

— Ang Lee

I try to study a genre I don't really listen to on a day-to-day-basis because there is honestly inspiration everywhere: it's best…

— Bree Runway

I'm interested in genre in a way, I suppose because you have a framework of something and you can just twist it…

— Lynne Ramsay

No, there isn't a particular type of genre that I'm drawn to. I'm more drawn to the possibility of creating different characters,…

— Freddy Rodriguez

I don't really have a structured path of wanting to say, "This is what I'll do next." I'm just going to read…

— Selena Gomez

One of the most common criticisms of romance is that the genre is too prescribed: If every romance novel ends happily ever…

— Sarah MacLean

I was a 12 year old kid in Northern Idaho listening to Billie Holiday and Lena Horne and Sarah Vaughan and Nat…

— Cheyenne Jackson

I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or…

— Jessye Norman

The greatest thing about form and convention is that it saves you from having to reinvent the wheel. Now, whether you mount…

— Chris Abani

I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and…

— Khaled Hosseini

When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe,…

— Rachel Nichols

It came from my mother. She was a singer, and literally every day of the week she sang at a different club…

— Robert Glasper

One of the problems of this genre is that there are cliches everywhere, and you've got to be careful and watch out.…

— Adrian Hodges

There is a lot of stigma and snobbiness about the self-help genre, and I can't vouch for everything out there, but for…

— Matthew Hussey

Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The…

— David Gemmell

It's just cool to do something different and branch out and dabble in different genres.

— Lights

It is no surprise that animation is Hollywood's most successful and innovative genre.

— Dwayne Johnson

There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell…

— Gore Verbinski

Audiences want to see something interesting. It doesn't matter which genre or period it belongs to.

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali

In novelas, sometimes you get the most ridiculous situations, but you make the best of it. But novelas are a very special…

— Genesis Rodriguez

Game of Thrones' really opened the door. It let people see that genre shows are worthy.

— Ross Duffer

I'm very picky with what I read. It's a specific genre of science fiction.

— Robert Whittaker

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.

— Bill Condon

I have been exposed to most musical genres and have learned how to tackle them effectively.

— Wendy Starland

I love suspense movies, because in a sense they're the most dreamlike of any genre, and I'm sure I'll make another one.

— Curtis Hanson

What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.

— Adam Arkin

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am…

— Pope Francis

If you ask me what genre 'Beyond' is, it's really difficult for me to answer.

— David Cage

In some ways we want definitions that can help protect our own interpretations of the genre.

— John D'Agata

Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.

— Michael Moore

Writing across genres has made me more prolific. When one is fighting me or simply not cutting it, I turn to another.

— Julianna Baggott