Genre Quotes · Page 32

I have been fortunate at being part of a contrasting genre of films and I portrayed a huge range of characters in…

— Rituparna Sengupta

I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die.

— Roberta Williams

One of the mistakes I made was believing that the rock n' roll genre as a genre was much more free than…

— Joan Jett

Hate walks hand in hand with hate, and black metal especially is a genre that is full of white power bands.

— Blake Judd

I don't really care that much about genre labels. I tend to write across a variety of different genres.

— Ken Liu

Genre hopping is something I intend to do, and I intend to do it forever and ever because I think genres are…

— Jack Garratt

'Slow West' is a western, and it's sort of a twist on the genre stylistically, I think, from what I understand going…

— Ben Mendelsohn

The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations.

— Brian Pinkerton

I don't care for horror and fantasy films. I never go to see them in the theater. I know I've played in…

— Peter Weller

They said: "Make it in this amount of time and go for it now..." Which is why I was suddenly ambushed and…

— Colin Firth

I never look for music by genre. I look for an artist who puts a dependable trademark on things. Like Elvis Costello…

— Todd Rundgren

I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of…

— P. D. James

I love to read the kind of books I write. Genre-breaking. Fresh-concept. World-building. My all-time top three authors would have to be…

— Blake Crouch

The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that's not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The…

— Ethan Hawke

I just love music, and I'm not as genre specific as most songwriters. A lot of my buddies just listen to country,…

— Kevin Fowler

I believe that, artistically and culturally, the free radio air should be able to support local artists of whatever genre. Play 40…

— Chuck D

Gay is a subculture, a slur, a set of gestures, a slang, a look, a posture, a parade, a rainbow flag, a…

— Jack Donovan

There's something about the sci-fi genre that gets an audience interested in it, so maybe you can take some risks that you…

— Rian Johnson

There are very real differences between science fiction and realistic fiction, between horror and fantasy, between romance and mystery. Differences in writing…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

When I write a book I write the best that I can and so much of that for me is following the…

— Micheline Aharonian Marcom

The techniques are all means of dealing with one simple idea: She wrote it. (That is, the "wrong" person--in this case, female--has…

— Joanna Russ

There is a little bit of a head vs. heart kind of battle that happens sometimes with the song. There's the goose…

— Josh Groban

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

Action is not really my genre, but it's what people expect out of me. And it works, too.

— Prabhu Deva

I take the same approach in all genres of art, across the board. It's intuitive.

— Erykah Badu

I loved writing the Spellman novels, but I never had any plan to only write in one genre.

— Lisa Lutz

Classical music is a genre of music. It's no more complex or less complex than pop music or R&B. The elitism is…

— Theo Hutchcraft

Each genre has something to teach me about the others. Not all the lessons are transferable, but many of the most important…

— Julianna Baggott

I try to stay away from any genre. I like to just make music, and it just is what it is.

— Ravyn Lenae

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

— Herbie Hancock

I will literally read anything, regardless of genre, fiction or non-fiction, as long as it's well written.

— Diana Gabaldon

But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.

— Bruce Willis

I'm not really a zombie genre guy; I'm not particularly versed in it. Doing 'The Walking Dead' sort of turned me on…

— Noah Emmerich

I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.

— Benjamin Percy

Outside of Peruvian rap-rock, few genre tags raise eyebrows quite like the words 'Nigerian disco.'

— Anthony Fantano

The action genre is not always the most synonymous with character development.

— Eric Dane

Pop just means popular - it can be any genre, and if it becomes popular, then it's pop music.

— Justin Tranter

I think most people now listen to different genres when they have different moods. I know I certainly do.

— Doug Walters

In my mind, there's this one 'super genre,' which is the only genre that matters, and that's the super genre of good…

— Chris Thile