Genre Quotes · Page 30

I think I've never really liked the idea of genre, a film that follows the rules of a genre.

— Nicolas Roeg

Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.

— Jo Nesbo

There seems to sometimes be an entire genre called 'female-fronted metal.'

— Floor Jansen

I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre.

— Gemma Chan

'Rann' is a new genre to me, a new experience and it is very special.

— Sudeep

I listen to a wide variety of music of all genres, but sometimes you just need a cheesy pop song.

— Cynthia Addai-Robinson

I didn't learn the word 'genre' until way, way late - I mean, like, in the '80s.

— Dianne Reeves

I'm not necessarily that big of a clubbing junkie, but I really like dance music as a genre.

— Mika

We were kind of caught up in the genre trap. We didn't really have a lot of artistic freedom. They wanted us…

— Mark McGrath

My first gig in the business was a guest star on 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' so I'm neck deep in sci-fi. It's…

— Wentworth Miller

I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform…

— Mark Haddon

When people say, 'Your music was the music of the Seventies,' I say, 'So was discoteque.' The Seventies was also the highest…

— Gerry Beckley

At the end of the day, I like the spy genre, as opposed to the action movie genre, because spies are smart.…

— Doug Liman

I don't want to go to a foreign country and get lumped into that genre. I'm just looking at the bigger picture.…

— G-Dragon

'Indigo Prophecy' already brought a lot of new features to the traditional adventure genre, including the Action system, MultiView, Bending Stories, etc.…

— David Cage

No matter what I put out, no matter what genre - because I feel like I'm going to experiment with everything -…

— Alessia Cara

All true artists in the world from all countries and all genres are influenced by Michael Jackson. There were music videos before…

— Sonu Nigam

Part of the job is knowing how to use this medium in the most effective way for the story you're telling, so…

— Alan Menken

“Sadly, but certainly, a promising genre of literature in poetry that began with pomp and a loud thud, a banger and an…

— Alok Mishra

You used to have to make a choice. Is it a serialized television show, or is it a stand-alone or procedural? We…

— Alex Kurtzman

This is something I think that blues music, or folk music, and all those particular genres that have a perspective about life…

— Joan Osborne

For me, something that's been always really important to me, that's also really served me well in hindsight, is doing different things,…

— Michelle Monaghan

“Science fiction, as a genre is fundamentally about ideas. It's about asking an impossible question, "What if...?" and building a story out…

— Dave Robinson

I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same…

— J. Michael Straczynski

I want to make my music a genre that people can immediately identify: something that never existed.

— Ji-Hae Park

They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And…

— Idina Menzel

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But there is always a time and a place for the subsets within genres.

— Robert Englund

Everyone's been on the "hip-hop is dead" campaign for years, and now it's the most unsure-of-itself genre ever.

— Aesop Rock

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

— Iain Banks

I think women have always been considered objects, especially in the genre of westerns.

— Sergio Leone

The crime fiction genre offers the writer infinite diversity of theme and treatment.

— Stanley Ellin

We are - as artists, we are racialized through genre and called black - without being called black - through genre.

— Kelela

I stick to Hindi rap. That is my USP. It gives an Indian essence to my music despite the foreign influence of…

— Badshah

I think comedy is a genre that has a lot of potential. It is a very content-driven film genre.

— Kartik Aaryan

“My favorite genre is Beautifully Written Books of Any Genre. Could we make that a genre?”

— Kristin Cashore

At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.

— David Crystal

The whole film genre is one of deceit. It is the suspension of disbelief. That's what all theater and all film is…

— Rhys Ifans

I just want to make great music. There's not a genre that I would categorize it as, but I want it to…

— Justine Skye

Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I…

— Kristin Chenoweth

“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.”

— Kamand Kojouri