Genre Quotes · Page 41

I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.

— Bong Joon-ho

Westerns just thematically, as a genre, have kind of a few tent poles that I really admire, and one of them is…

— Kiefer Sutherland

I would describe my style of songwriting as classic. I learned very early on and have stuck to the core principles of…

— Wendy Starland

I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

I've published over 100 books - and that is divided about 50/50 adult and young adult. Lately, I have been writing more…

— Michael Scott

We come away from the tragedies of [William] Shakespeare with a profound sense of having encountered reality in its most pristine form…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I like to think of my style as pretty versatile. And I'd like whatever I record to reflect that to be mostly…

— Josh Logan

Originating with such figures as T. H. Huxley, who sought to bring Darwin's ideas to the masses, the popular science genre moved…

— Paul Di Filippo

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

— Kamand Kojouri

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

— Benjamin Percy

Hip-hop is a way of life. It isn't a genre in truth in 'American Idol.'

— Nigel Lythgoe

There's always your initial trepidation about doing a remake, but that was alleviated by the fact that it was a prequel. Immediately,…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

I realised that a television show on political lampoon was one genre that was missing.

— Cyrus Broacha

“Sometimes people say that we're living in the future, and time's up for science fiction, but I think that never will be,…

— Stephen Baxter

Some of my other stories are talked about as fantasy, some as horror, and some aren't talked about as genre at all.…

— Karin Tidbeck

As a horror movie fan, I was very obsessed with horror films. Still am. I love the genre. For me, horror films…

— Bryan Fuller

When 'American Pie' happened, I was so lucky to get that opportunity and I just tried to do a good job in…

— Anonymous

There are shows, a lot of small cable shows like Breaking Bad, where in the general population nobody watches them really, but…

— Misha Collins

I'm not limited to categories or genres. Anything human beings come up with fascinates me. If a three-legged idiot like me can…

— John Lydon

I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.

— Guillermo del Toro

Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It's really, really eclectic. It's not a business book [Girlboss], but it's still a book that should make you want to get…

— Sophia Amoruso

I think that no one should be limited to only doing one genre of TV.

— Zara McDermott

We all know from growing up with TV that John Wells shows are usually very large ensembles with amazingly written characters. He…

— Michael Cudlitz

That's more about lifestyle [Peter Mayles], living abroad. It's about buying a donkey and house in south France, and that's a slightly…

— John Gimlette