Genre Quotes · Page 23

I don't just want to do something that is purely stuck in a genre box. I would like to have the kind…

— George Nolfi

I certainly realize that not only do I like the horror genre, but I'm getting really good at it and I'm having…

— Elisha Cuthbert

I think the artists are really the face of the music they make. It's no longer the genre that dictates it.

— Dua Lipa

The police genre is capable of holding and shaping many forms of storytelling.

— Lesley Sharp

I don't go out of my way to write Weird Fiction, or in any other genre. Some of my stuff easily slips…

— Karin Tidbeck

I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I…

— Herbie Hancock

I'm a big movie fan, and I want to make movies in every genre. I want to make my romantic comedy one…

— James Wan

I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.

— Robert Englund

The Mirror Empire is the most original fantasy I've read in a long time, set in a world full of new ideas,…

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

I have been blessed to have been working since I was 11. I think horror is an underrated genre. When done really…

— Jonathan Tucker

We really invented the genre of tracing family trees and going back as far as we could on the paper trail. When…

— Henry Louis Gates

“The uncanny is not a literary genre. But nor is it a non-literary genre. It overflows the very institution of literature. It…

— Nicholas Royle

If you talk about genres - I don't care if you're talking about war, Westerns, science fiction, horror, fantasy, humor, romance -…

— Michael Uslan

Genre mechanics are really tricky because if you pay too much attention to the idea of rules of genre, it becomes pretty…

— Karyn Kusama

It is important to know what audiences might expect from their genre movies, but I think it is also important to not…

— Karyn Kusama

One of the wonderful things about making a film of any genre is that you have dialogue. You can take up a…

— Woody Allen

“Thrillers, like all genre fiction, remain for the most part “beneath.” There is a feeling in literature, more than any other art…

— Will Lavender

To me, the most important tool is not a physical or a technical one. It's more of a cerebral one. It's your…

— Mike Portnoy

As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I believe that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople.…

— Stephen Jay Gould

It may be a mistake to say this, but I know my limitations as an actor and I know what I can…

— Christopher Lambert

Sure, I'd love to be on primetime, but if I'm blessed enough to be picked up by another soap, thank God! It's…

— Lindsay Hartley

Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst.…

— Phil Anselmo

Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don't mind saying that, it's true. I love doing them and hopefully always will…

— Meg Ryan

“Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It just literally never an option!”

— Lillian R. Melendez

While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.

— Charles Stross

Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a…

— John Carpenter

The fantasy genre has so far rather embraced me, and I'm incredibly grateful for that.

— Gwendoline Christie

I'm just looking for material that excites me more than any specific genre. It just needs to be good.

— Christina Hendricks

In comedy there's a lot of drama, and in drama there's a lot of comedy. The two meet more than the word…

— Ayo Edebiri

Whatever films we make we should be honest in the genre we are making.

— Vikram Bhatt

What is pop music? It's not a genre. It's just the music that is popular at a given point in time.

— Jonas Blue

I met someone who said they'd figured out my genre: "madcap redemption comedy." I'll buy that.

— Harold Ramis

I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore.

— Danny Boyle

As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and…

— Stephen King

I absolutely love genre movies. When I was a kid, I was really impacted by genre films and cult classics.

— Lucas Till

I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.

— Tony Goldwyn

I knew what kind of genre 'Casa de mi Padre' was going for. But my character, specifically, I think is very real.

— Genesis Rodriguez

Filmmakers have to really find a unique take on something if they're going to explore an already-explored genre of movies.

— Josh Trank

I really want to do a western film. It's one of my favorite movie genres of all time.

— Denis Leary