Genre Quotes · Page 19

Our job in gospel is not going away. It's a sustainable genre. It sells - without question.

— Marvin Sapp

Terrific! A successful blend of genres, complex and fascinating characters, and loads of suspense make 24 Bones a must-read.

— Nate Kenyon

I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.

— Zooey Deschanel

As a genre-bending blend of police procedural and science fiction, The Silk Code delivers on its promises.

— Gerald Jonas

I like good music. There's no specific genre as such. It can be hip-hop also.

— Harrdy Sandhu

No one worries about genre when they're dancing. They're not asking themselves, 'Is this song a dubstep song?'

— Skrillex

The action-movie genre is a very difficult one to get satiated in terms of your acting bits.

— Jason Statham

The TV mini-series is kind of a lost genre because the networks have given up on it.

— Bonnie Hammer

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy…

— Lynn Abbey

I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know…

— Keith Urban

I don't want to be the funny girl or the serious girl. I would hope to touch on all different genres and…

— Yvonne Strahovski

'I Love Lucy,' the first classic, really belonged more to the Wacky Woman genre than the domestic sitcom; 'My Little Margie' and…

— Tom Shales

I don't think I make genre films. I think studios try to sell films as genres because they know how to do…

— Darren Aronofsky

If 'Castlevania' wasn't created next to me, and Capcom didn't release 'Ghouls n' Goblins,' then maybe there wouldn't be any 'Metal Gear,'…

— Hideo Kojima

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they…

— Juan Goytisolo

As a musician, I look for certain things that stimulate me. And what I look for is something that's an evolution on…

— Steve Vai

The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to…

— Richard Misrach

I decided to take my foot off the pedal with all the detail. I'm sure after 'Animalia' and 'The Eleventh Hour,' readers…

— Graeme Base

“Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, [Trout Mask Replica] was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now,…

— Lester Bangs

'The 5th Wave' is sci-fi, but I tried very hard to ground the story in very human terms and in those universal…

— Rick Yancey

I've had a chance to really stretch and do a lot of different genres. When I started acting, my whole focus and…

— Kyle MacLachlan

Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. Certainly there…

— Kristin Hannah

Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special…

— Patrick Rothfuss

That's always been the process of our music, in a sense, keeping it simple, not being so heavy that you are beating…

— Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.

— Jasper Fforde

There is a renaissance of really great genre entertainment happening. But it's become incredibly audience-specific.

— Dean Devlin

I think [Doctor Strange] it is - it does tap into a supernatural type of genre that is not horror.

— Kevin Feige

There's no coherent stylistic genre specific advice that I could provide.

— Matthew Healy

I think there have been more movies in the Western genre than any other. I grew up watching those movies.

— Tom Selleck

I didn't know what the word 'genre' meant till I was twenty years old.

— Trombone Shorty

The detective genre is not easy because you've got to get to a conclusion that is unexpected.

— Miranda Otto

Music is everything to me. I wake up and go to bed with it. I listen to all genres, depending on my…

— Chanel Iman

What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.

— Nicholas Meyer

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

— Leos Carax

I've never been a big horror genre fan, but I did go see 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in the theaters and I…

— Jackie Earle Haley

I really strived to give equal weight to the two halves of my genre's name: science and fiction.

— Robert J. Sawyer

I want people to get out of that nasty habit of needing a label. Every genre for each song is different.

— SZA

If you look at my filmography my second film 'Akash Vani' had nothing to do with the genre that I am identified…

— Luv Ranjan

A long time ago, I stopped trying to look at projects as genre exercises.

— Ron Howard

Genre/forms are institutional questions mainly. Like matter to MFA programs in terms of which workshop you can teach.

— Juliana Spahr