Genre Quotes · Page 22

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

— Amit Chaudhuri

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

— Jonathan Lethem

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

— Sam Mendes

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

— Cillian Murphy

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

— Madlib

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

— Nathan Lowell

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

— Dharmendra

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

— Matthea Harvey

I don't think, as an actor, you should define what genre you want to do. Once you do that, you lose the…

— Nushrat Bharucha

A lot of people who have been perceiving my music have been trying to formulate a genre for it, and I think…

— King Krule

My aspirations and dreams keep evolving. I think dreams evolve and I want to become a better songwriter. I want to do…

— Morgan James

I think a good director can embrace any genre and it's the kind of thing where you always want to do something…

— David Ayer

When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked,…

— Mark Haddon

“Genre, then, as a means of study is a way we can examine and discuss the elements and functions of a type…

— David Bate

One might say that the novel is the genre that most predisposes one to a profound insight into the tremendous life around…

— Mikhail Sholokhov

Long gone are the days of the stylised old James Bond films with Roger Moore karate chopping his way through the bad…

— Adam Rayner

I just want to do everything. As broad as that seems, it's kind of the plan. There are so many different genres…

— Vanessa Hudgens

Only idiots or snobs ever really thought less of 'genre books' of course. There are stupid books and there are smart books.…

— Stephen Marche

“The Cool Stuff Theory of Literature is as follows: All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will…

— Steven Brust

Back in the day, a lot of our instructors in nonfiction were actually fiction scholars. So they would bring in stories as…

— John D'Agata

For generations, field guides to plants and animals have sharpened the pleasure of seeing by opening our minds to understanding. Now John…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

It [horror genre] never dies. It just keeps getting re­invented and it always will. Horror is a universal language; we're all afraid.…

— John Carpenter

I can tell you as a fact that if you'd asked anyone in Hollywood one year before 'Pirates of the Caribbean' had…

— Dean Devlin

As a screenwriter I'm often writing in genres where there have been thousands of movies; whereas when I direct movies they tend…

— John Sayles

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

— Kailash Kher

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

— Oliver Sim

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

— Maren Morris

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

— Edgar Meyer

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

— SonReal

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

— Chad Lindberg

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

— Alison McGhee

“It is the intriguing job of genre scholars to figure out what lies behind what everyone already knows.”

— Amy J. Devitt

I’ve always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.

— Jonathan Lethem

I think every artist reaches a place where they want to transcend genre.

— Lecrae

Whatever your favorite genre is, you can probably trace your love for it back to one single book that really moved you.

— David Farland

James McMurtry is a true Americana poet - actually he is a poet regardless of genre

— Michael Nesmith

Women look really sexy doing action on-screen, and it is my favorite genre.

— Esha Gupta

I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about…

— Rachel Weisz