The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature. — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Whatever your favorite genre is, you can probably trace your love for it back to one single book that really moved you. — David Farland Copy Share Image
When I did TV shows and my other movies, I never try to do it for anybody. I just do what I… — Will Gluck Copy Share Image
No, the horror genre is not my first love. I don't run to the theater to see horror films. — Amanda Righetti Copy Share Image
The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties. — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun. — Candace Kita Copy Share Image
Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst.… — Phil Anselmo Copy Share Image
The horror genre is an extremely delicate thing. You can talk to filmmakers and even psychologists who've studied the genre, and even… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The thing I like about the sci-fi genre is that you get to examine universal themes and polarizing moral choices. The characters… — Jaime Murray Copy Share Image
Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe a… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
If a show is good, it helps people learn about themselves in some way and in some function. Whatever the genre is,… — Matthew Davis Copy Share Image
The safest genre is the horror film. But the most unsafe - the most dangerous - is comedy. Because even if your… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
One of the wonderful things about making a film of any genre is that you have dialogue. You can take up a… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
There are no requirements when you're using a particular genre. It's not like the genre is your boss and you have to… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
I get emails from students at programs all over the country who want to transfer to Iowa, and in most cases their… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
When you're doing a comedy and you want to somehow satirise people who are taking themselves seriously, I think the most serious… — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
One of the problems of this genre is that there are cliches everywhere, and you've got to be careful and watch out.… — Adrian Hodges Copy Share Image
[Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up - of… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
The American independent cinema is as formulaic as Hollywood and one genre is what you might call the 'inaction movie'. The setting… — Philip French Copy Share Image
Being gone for so long and coming back into the game, I'm the type of person to reinvent myself pretty often and… — Tony Sunshine Copy Share Image
To think of writing poetry as a "career" is not only ridiculous, it's dangerous. To the imagination. To the way one thinks… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
There's always gonna be criticisms, no matter what movie you do, no matter what. You can't please everybody, and it doesn't matter… — Sam Worthington 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 get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I started as a black-and-white teenage photographer, and I'm still there decades after. In some ways, the genre is almost gone. I… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
The actors are different, although I didn't set out to be different. My inspiration came from people like Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
I'll always have a totally open mind to endless possibilities. I want to do a dance album. Not Techno, but a record… — Rob Halford Copy Share Image
I do think that once a horror genre is commonly parodied in other movies it sort kills that genre or that specific… — Roy Lee Copy Share Image
The spy genre is something I loved.It also extends to the bad guy because I think, to me, what I love the… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
There's a level where the themes of a film are very relevant to me and also the idea of finding out how… — James Mangold Copy Share Image
I describe me sound as international: reggae, pop, rap, R&B all in one. I think I have my own style. I can't… — Sean Kingston Copy Share Image
There was a time when I first started that there was such a thing called 'a woman's film' and there were certain… — Gurinder Chadha Copy Share Image
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