Genre Quotes · Page 21

I don't believe that what Tears for Fears has done, and continues to do, can be pigeonholed into a genre or decade.

— Curt Smith

There are women in every genre having a lot of success. Why not celebrate that?

— Sarah McLachlan

It's always better to offer variety to the audience rather than singing just one kind of genre.

— Sonu Kakkar

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

— Leslie Banks

I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women…

— Bar Paly

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

— Jose Saramago

Genre categorization is a capitalist (rather than artistic) thing, a symptom of marketing and major-chain bookshelf placement.

— Lee Klein

The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.

— Mary Karr

They [comic books] are not a genre, they are not something to get hot and cold from one year to the next,…

— Michael Uslan

One of the things I would love to do, by the time I die, is be in every single genre. That would…

— Indira Varma

I tried to mix country music into my sets in L.A., and I noticed that was when people checked out. And I…

— Brett Young

One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you…

— Ethan Hawke

I always wanted to do a movie that deals with America's horrific past with slavery, but the way I wanted to deal…

— Quentin Tarantino

I'm not a genre film filmmaker. I'd rather look for a topic that I think we need to bring up and discuss…

— Ruben Ostlund

The great thing about working on a genre show is that you can basically have a season finale where every character is…

— Julie Benz

To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the genre and kicks it…

— Taylor Sheridan

Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the…

— John Podhoretz

Gothic in its purest sense is actually a very powerful, twisted genre, but the way it was being used by by journalists…

— Siouxsie Sioux

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

Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Considering that "literary fiction" is a sub-genre that's not quite the same as "literature," either, it follows that the short, semi-humorous bits…

— Lee Klein

Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do,…

— Kate Morton

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

I love being the dude that does what no else is doing in the genre. It's exciting and terrifying at the same…

— Thomas Rhett

Great music is great music. It doesn't matter what genre it belongs.

— Stjepan Hauser

What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.

— Wyclef Jean

I think movies should illuminate and teach, but that's for a certain genre.

— Jordana Brewster

When a horror movie is well done, I love it and I put it up in esteem with any other genre.

— David Hayter

There's only one type of music and that's good music, no matter what genre it is.

— will.i.am

Genres aren't that relevant. Nearly every form of music is a melting pot of things of things.

— Jacob Bannon

Most people don't know this, but I never wanted Man Repeller to be about me. It was titled that to identify a…

— Leandra Medine

Being genre-bending doesn't really cross my mind. I don't consider anyone I work with a specific genre.

— Kenny Beats

Most fans don't realize how challenging it is to broadcast live TV, especially in a hybrid genre such as WWE.

— Jim Ross

I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the…

— Thomas Ligotti

I root for all movies, but I especially root for good comic book movies. It's the best, most interesting genre going right…

— Scott Derrickson

The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of…

— Stewart Copeland

You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.

— Julianna Baggott

My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films.

— Mary Harron

I am all about switching between genres and doing as much as possible.

— David Koechner