It's easy to get stuck in a rut when you're writing in one genre for too long. So, when you've been writing… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
My feeling about fiction, regardless of the genre, is that it is meant to be a representation of life. I want my… — Richard Laymon Copy Share Image
I never pick a film based on the genre; I choose the characters I play. I will think it through thoroughly -… — Rain Copy Share Image
After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
Now because the film industry is what it is, if people are expecting a certain film genre and they're not getting it,… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
My 'Devdas' was a tribute to all the mainstream masters, from Mehboob Khan, K. Asif, and V. Shantaram to Raj Kapoor. I… — Sanjay Leela Bhansali Copy Share Image
I think every writer of detective fiction writing today has been influenced by Mr. Parker. I'm of a generation that followed Robert… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
If I had stayed purely a horror writer or thriller writer, I might have more of a presence in those particular genres,… — Chet Williamson Copy Share Image
Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel,… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“Border crossing' is a recurrent theme in all aspects of my work -- editing, writing, and painting. I'm interested in the various… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
It's great that there are so many different kinds of books for kids and adults to choose from. I think an eclectic… — Ann M. Martin Copy Share Image
There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships.… — Nancy Meyers Copy Share Image
Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
When I came up with the idea for 'Tuskegee,' I didn't want to be confined by boundaries of age, genre or demographics.… — Lionel Richie Copy Share Image
When I had a record deal in the '90s, that was my dream - to make an album like Barbra Streisand's Broadway… — Billy Porter Copy Share Image
I do experiment with lots of different genres. In making music, I don't think of genre like, "I want to do this,… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres… — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
“It should be particularly stressed that the fantastic makes no sense in an out-and-out strange world. To imagine the fantastic in it… — Roger Caillois Copy Share Image
It may be the first in what I trust will be a rapidly growing and influential genre--the novel designed on purpose to… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
There is no other genre that deals with America better, in a subtextual way, than the Westerns being made in the different… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
That's how I'm able to work and move between so many different genres - I want to be part of what's happening,… — Diplo Copy Share Image
A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I actually don't like westerns much. I like good westerns, but it isn't my preferred genre. There are all kinds of westerns:… — Andrew Dominik Copy Share Image
I have a complex feeling about genre. I love it, but I hate it at the same time. I have the urge… — Bong Joon-ho Copy Share Image
I don't really begin with ideas about genre. I certainly wrote a gothic novel, 'The Keep,' that conformed to and, in some… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of the '80s fantasy genre that I grew up watching, movies like "Krull" and "Clash of the Titans"… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Getting to do different genres of movies means you're gonna have different types of situations. So I want to try and do… — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
What genres are good for is being like, 'Here are the parameters. Here's something about the way it's going to make you… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
Similarities in the vampire genre are so rampant that there's really no such thing as an original idea - only an original… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
What's so exciting and unstoppable about the horror genre is that I view it all as metaphorical exploration. It's the safe place… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
The four movies I can remember seeing as a kid were 'The Elephant Man,' 'The Magnificent Seven,' 'The Good, The Bad and… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
I do like the idea of doing something different, maybe doing something that's more like a genre film. And there are certain… — Joe Swanberg Copy Share Image
Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
All I am looking for is a fine combination of critical and commercial acclaim. Whether conventional or unconventional - does not matter. — Ayushmann Khurrana Copy Share Image
I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to… — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
There was a lot of pressure to find a genre and stick to it. People would tell me all the time, 'You… — Tyler Joseph Copy Share Image
I'm open to doing any kind of role and any kind of genre as long as it's interesting and as long as… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
There are people who say they want to write novels. They think, 'I'll learn my craft on the romance novel.' If you… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
The main advantage of being a reviewer is that you read a lot. A lot of books get sent to you, and… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image