Genre Quotes · Page 13

Music has a way where it moves, regardless of the genre, to progress.

— Koffee

I bow down to the altar of genre, because it allowed me to get 'The Witch' financed.

— Robert Eggers

The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.

— Stanislaw Lem

People can't look down on grime anymore, it's an established British genre.

— Dizzee Rascal

I take very seriously that challenge of trying to do genre films - but elevated genre films.

— John Hillcoat

Writing across genres has made me more prolific. When one is fighting me or simply not cutting it, I turn to another.

— Julianna Baggott

Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.

— Michael Moore

I love suspense movies, because in a sense they're the most dreamlike of any genre, and I'm sure I'll make another one.

— Curtis Hanson

After I tasted success with erotic thrillers, a time came when I was being offered only films belonging to that genre. The…

— Emraan Hashmi

Every time you make a film, you want to do it in a genre that is different from your previous film, so…

— Mani Ratnam

I love nothing better than a dirty cartoon. I think that it's really, really funny to see adult themes in a genre…

— John DiMaggio

It was at our library that I found Nancy Drew and fell in love with the genre. I've been grateful ever since…

— Nancy Pickard

I'm a huge fan of television, and it's a really good time to be a fan of television, because there's so much…

— Jon Hamm

I love the horror genre for how cinematic it is. I gravitated, I think, initially, toward the horror genre because, of all…

— Scott Derrickson

Manga is a very entertaining cultural form, made of many totally different genres. Don’t restrict yourself with a single style of manga.…

— Hiromu Arakawa

I love the fans of genre. Genre fans are the best fans. They're loyal, they're dedicated, and they're passionate about the projects.…

— Julie Benz

I've been searching for a genre that would be most adequate to my vision of the world to convey how my ear…

— Svetlana Alexievich

It's a tract against capital punishment in the genre of Swift's Modest Proposal. I was simply following a formula to its logical…

— William S. Burroughs

Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and…

— Elliott Sharp

“Singling out “women’s fiction” for genre derision never fails to piss me off. Somehow worse when women do it. Case in pt:…

— Kelley Armstrong

I don't record (any type of genre of music) that I didn't hear in my family's living room by the time I…

— Linda Ronstadt

The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror…

— Mark Gatiss

Storytelling is more like a skin. You start with the outermost layer, what it's going to look like, then you kind of…

— Charlie Jane Anders

When I was a kid, I was watching the movies my parents wanted to watch. I came from a working class family,…

— Olivier Martinez

In some ways we want definitions that can help protect our own interpretations of the genre.

— John D'Agata

If you ask me what genre 'Beyond' is, it's really difficult for me to answer.

— David Cage

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am…

— Pope Francis

What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.

— Adam Arkin

I have been exposed to most musical genres and have learned how to tackle them effectively.

— Wendy Starland

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.

— Bill Condon

I'm very picky with what I read. It's a specific genre of science fiction.

— Robert Whittaker

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be…

— Tanith Lee

I really like electronic stuff. I was enamored with that whole genre of music.

— Philip Bailey

I cannot categorize 'Allama' into one specific genre. The movie is beyond boundaries.

— Meghana Raj

I've always wanted to be an actor that explores different genres and different characters.

— Rose McIver

As a music supervisor, you learn to embrace the best of every genre, and I really have to say there's nothing that…

— Alexandra Patsavas

I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures.

— Wes Craven

In genre movies, you usually not only hate the characters, you sometimes hate them so much that you hate the actors playing…

— Bobcat Goldthwait

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

— Anonymous

Any film that can entertain and has a message and cannot be slotted into any genre is unique.

— Shruti Haasan