Genre Quotes · Page 15

Action comedy, if you can get it right, it is, for me, a particularly brilliant genre. It really is.

— Jason Statham

I'm a self-confessed genre nerd. I'm a very serious actor, but a genre nerd, all the same.

— Penelope Mitchell

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

— Shruti Haasan

I don't think I will write anything that could be even remotely considered a genre novel from this point on. I think…

— James Ellroy

I do think that Lovecraft is very influential to the horror genre, but I also didn't want to ignore the fact that…

— Misha Green

I love doing horror with comedy twists and I think it's a really fun genre.

— Katrina Bowden

It's just cool to do something different and branch out and dabble in different genres.

— Lights

Audiences want to see something interesting. It doesn't matter which genre or period it belongs to.

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Finally I started really opening up as a songwriter and an interpreter and taking songs from all kind of genres and stripping…

— Lizz Wright

It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre…

— Damien Chazelle

I know, for me, 'Grease' was one of the first musicals that I can really remember watching as a kid, and I…

— Jacob Artist

“I had one woman come up to me in a bookstore and say, 'You know, everyone told me it was a horror…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demo-graphic of people I'm…

— Taylor Swift

Science fiction is not a genre that has much respect in China. Critics have long been discouraged from paying attention to the…

— Liu Cixin

The fact is that Superman isn't around because he is the oldest superhero. He's still around because he is a great superhero.…

— Gary Frank

I was raised on 'TRL' and listened to every genre that sounded good to me, from Sum 41 to Jay Z to…

— Jon Bellion

As someone who writes and teaches YA fiction, I spend a lot of time trying to define its character and readership, and…

— Robin Wasserman

“Realism is for lazy-minded, semi-educated people whose atrophied imagination allows them to appreciate only the most limited and convention subject matter. Re-Fi…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Especially in entertainment geared toward young people, the women are much stronger than they used to be. There's not really the damsel…

— Jessica Alba

I feel like I have a very unique perspective especially for someone in the hip-hop genre. I'm not afraid to explore it,…

— Hoodie Allen

I don't have a favorite genre. I love to work and live vicariously through every character. It's all about trying to bring…

— Catherine Mary Stewart

There are things that are about the entire genre, so it's weird when you look on Wikipedia and people say, "The scene…

— Edgar Wright

The first thing I ever thought of when I thought of Buffy , the movie, was the little...blonde girl who goes into…

— Joss Whedon

From his style, you’d think Jason Brannon was the dark double of Ray Bradbury. He cares more about character and realism than…

— Michael Arnzen

In novelas, sometimes you get the most ridiculous situations, but you make the best of it. But novelas are a very special…

— Genesis Rodriguez

It is no surprise that animation is Hollywood's most successful and innovative genre.

— Dwayne Johnson

There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell…

— Gore Verbinski

Game of Thrones' really opened the door. It let people see that genre shows are worthy.

— Ross Duffer

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

The horror genre is important because it promotes experimentation in filmmaking.

— Richard King

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

— Koffee

For me, there's something about a certain kind of genre film that has real potency in its emotional landscape.

— Karyn Kusama

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

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

— John D'Agata

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

— Pope Francis

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

— David Cage