Genre Quotes · Page 23

I think it's healthy to have a lot of different styles within a genre. It makes it much more interesting.

— Little Louie Vega

When you think of dog movies, that genre, Old Yeller is sort of the benchmark and you hope that you can raise…

— Jennifer Aniston

Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back.…

— Neil Gaiman

I did not fix any genre for 'AK.' We just write a story and audience will put it in a genre as…

— Thiagarajan Kumararaja

Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.

— Margaret Atwood

I never had a problem with genre because a genre actually is like a uniform - you put yourself into a certain…

— Wong Kar-wai

We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.

— Tyler Joseph

No genre of music is better than another, whether it's country, hip-hop, trap, classical, whatever. It's all music.

— Stromae

Comedy as a genre is the one that has given me maximum success, and I do broadly get associated with this genre.…

— Riteish Deshmukh

“As far as I'm concerned, you can't beat a good whodunnit: the twists and turns, the clues and the red herrings and…

— Anthony Horowitz

“The genres, it is thought, have other designs on us. They want to entertain, as opposed to rubbing our noses in the…

— Margaret Atwood

'Midnight's Children' falls under the genre of post-colonial writing, and there is a range of writers like V.S. Naipaul and Salman who…

— Satya Bhabha

I knew I wanted to work with Brad [Falchuk] and Ian [Brennan] again on something comedic, and we are having a blast…

— Ryan Murphy

There are three huge, titanic, space movies which if you ever make a film [about space] you cannot avoid. You may want…

— Danny Boyle

The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time…

— John le Carre

I think that in making a genre movie, you have a really great opportunity to use abstraction to allow the audience to…

— Miles Robbins

I'd love to do a Paul Greengrass movie, or something like that, that's a character-driven action film. I'd like someone to make…

— Carey Mulligan

If I would had been born years earlier, I would have been in all the Westerns. It's just the way that the…

— Lance Henriksen

I had this whole issue of doing a crime film in the 2010s. The genre's been mined very, very heavily. Post-Scorsese, post-Tarantino,…

— Paul Schrader

Anthony Ryan is a new fantasy author destined to make his mark on the genre. His debut novel, Blood Song, certainly has…

— Michael J. Sullivan

And our experience in England was that. It was a delight. I had never even been to England and I got to…

— Jerusha Hess

I know that for category purposes, people have to lump certain artists in with genre that they make their name or their…

— Joe Louis Walker

There are shows, a lot of small cable shows like Breaking Bad, where in the general population nobody watches them really, but…

— Misha Collins

I was always creatively stubborn, adverse to editing by others, and wanted to use the kind of Ukrainian we spoke among ourselves…

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

I like 'Firework' because it is very different from our past songs and was inspired by the Latin genre.

— Jeongyeon

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.

— Paul Di Filippo

The martial arts genre a lot of times has been relegated to B-level action.

— Justin Lin

“A good book is a good book, I’ve always thought, whatever the genre.”

— Miranda James

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch…

— Rachel Griffiths

The cool thing about Americana is that the genre is accepting of all types of music.

— Amanda Shires

I've never been particularly interested in genre distinctions. They seem to me more useful to a librarian than to a writer.

— Hisham Matar

It's understandably obvious, when I was making 'Company,' of the underworld genre, people would compare it to 'Satya.'

— Ram Gopal Varma

I just know that I'm a fan of all different kinds of genres. You're supposed to be free doing music, and that's…

— Bruno Mars

I am a clean slate and am willing to learn and explore every possible genre that comes my way.

— Sooraj Pancholi

When I started, I didn't want to show my face. I liked the mystique, and the fact that I wouldn't be boxed…

— Naughty Boy

I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre.

— Natalie Portman

All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.

— Pedro Almodovar

What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part - it's character.…

— William Fichtner

I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I…

— Jennifer Egan

To me genres were always an imaginary things, they're just marketing channels.

— Michael Gungor