Genre Quotes · Page 13

Women look really sexy doing action on-screen, and it is my favorite genre.

— Esha Gupta

I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about…

— Rachel Weisz

“It is the intriguing job of genre scholars to figure out what lies behind what everyone already knows.”

— Amy J. Devitt

I’ve always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.

— Jonathan Lethem

I think every artist reaches a place where they want to transcend genre.

— Lecrae

I'm just starting to take some more voice lessons but hell no, I'll always stick into the hip-hop genre.

— SonReal

I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books or was a horror buff.

— Chad Lindberg

I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.

— Alison McGhee

I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been…

— Edgar Wright

I've always been a fan of books that create an interesting blend of fact and fiction - whether it's Norman Mailer, or…

— Mark Boal

I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted…

— Bruce Willis

Right from childhood, I have enjoyed films which belong to the thriller genre. As a kid, I would read novels written by…

— Sriram Raghavan

As players of instruments, it is our duty to reach out and give light to those in the dark in whatever way…

— Sizzla

Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few…

— Ville Valo

I sometimes play different kinds of music to see where the performers end up. I play one genre. Then something else when…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Since childhood, I've been a fan of mysteries - 'Nancy Drew' lovers unite! - but 'Vertigo' struck me as an entirely new…

— Laura van den Berg

Well, part of it is the general fascination with the Amish. It's an extremely popular genre and Beverly Lewis just happens to…

— Michael Landon, Jr

I love Florida Georgia Line. I love 'Round Here.' So if a fan wants to listen to that, and if a fan…

— Scotty McCreery

The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a…

— Neil Cross

Ricky's [Reed] a lot like me. He always says we have the same brain. He does all different genres, and it just…

— Meghan Trainor

I've talked about that with friends, about what genre makes sense to choose for each record and the strategy around that... Sometimes…

— Kelela

“Each of us has a sophisticated system that throws away most of our experiences, keeps only a few choice samples, mixes them…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

Nashville has become sort of this go-to writing city for every genre.

— Maren Morris

I put things on shuffle a lot, which is probably why I don't have a very good idea of genre.

— Oliver Sim

I try to just be the person I am, with a lot of sensitivity to the genre in which I'm playing.

— Edgar Meyer

To me, as a musician, there aren't any boundaries genre-wise as far as what can you listen to to inspire you.

— John Legend

I have created a new genre. It is a soulful creation that comes straight from my heart.

— Kailash Kher

The spy genre is something which, as a fan of movies, a movie geek myself, I just love that cinematic joy that…

— Pierce Brosnan

I would love to collaborate on a graphic novel with an artist - I'm terrible at drawing but I really love that…

— Matthea Harvey

Apne' was a good film and there was no film like this in the sports genre.

— Dharmendra

Podiobooks rules. It's still the best way I know to find an audience for longer works in any genre.

— Nathan Lowell

I get bored with music so I try to listen to things in different types of genre to see what's possible.

— Madlib

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

— Sam Mendes

I always think it's a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.

— Cillian Murphy

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

— Jonathan Lethem

“This is a little parable about cities and genres; how, while some of them lose their imaginative centrality, others take their place.”

— Amit Chaudhuri

What I love more than anything is Jerry Goldsmith's 80's music and Bernard Herrmann's genre music from the 50's and 60's.

— Bear McCreary

Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre.

— Junot Diaz