Genre Quotes · Page 24

Country music as a genre, as an art form, is just as valid out there in the pantheon of the arts as…

— Marty Stuart

I always think it's a little bit of a challenge when people sort of associate female artists as their own genre.

— Grace Potter

Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels…

— Edward M. Lerner

I used to love jungle. I still think it's the ultimate genre, really, because the people making it weren't musicians.

— Aphex Twin

Really interesting genre films, especially monster movies, evoke the fears of the times intentionally.

— Matt Reeves

I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of…

— Quentin Tarantino

Once I have a story idea I like it doesn't even matter to me what genre it is, I'm just so happy…

— Leigh Whannell

The Scandis blew the crime genre out of the water and the Americans have been doing interesting things with it for years.

— Douglas Henshall

Honestly, I had a kid, so you watch the movies your kids want to watch. I'm also a producer, so when I…

— Courtney Gains

I'm not a big believer in the idea of genre - I'm a fan of any writer who can pull me into…

— Nick Petrie

Here I was, having done a thriller and a horror movie - why did I have the audacity to make a romantic…

— David Slade

People try to read a lot into what 'digital' means. It's just another platform. There are very attractive things that happen if…

— Jeffrey Bewkes

I don't want my writing to be so unique that when you apply it to different genres, it seems like the previous…

— Shawn Ryan

I feel like a lot of the singer-songwriters in my genre and in my generation have gotten more and more snooty about…

— Brandi Carlile

I think the best comedic actors don't play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because…

— Zooey Deschanel

I always knew I wanted to make movies since I was around eleven. I never thought of it as wanting to do…

— Jeff Baena

I do not know what might be the most fitting description… I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It…

— Pope Francis

“Fantastic literature has been especially prominent in times of unrest, when the older values have been overthrown to make way for the…

— Franz Rottensteiner

I came from advertising. For me it's about protecting the director's vision. That's always the goal. There's keeping things on budget and…

— Charles Roven

Nashville has always felt perfect. I don't think Third Man Records could exist in any other town that I know of in…

— Jack White

I've tended to find that myths of the near future give people the ability to really kind of explore the present, so…

— DJ Spooky

I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories…

— Jason Reitman

In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You…

— Garret Dillahunt

When you're have known to do voice-overs for Justice League or Legion of Super Heroes or DC/Marvel, you're kind of on that…

— Phil Morris

I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.

— Lena Dunham

I am singing a genre of music that people are very protective of. I am being compared to the greatest vocalist of…

— Michael Buble

I want to tell stories, I don't really try to get boxed in by a specific genre.

— Spike Lee

Each genre has something to teach me about the others. Not all the lessons are transferable, but many of the most important…

— Julianna Baggott

Classical music is a genre of music. It's no more complex or less complex than pop music or R&B. The elitism is…

— Theo Hutchcraft

I loved writing the Spellman novels, but I never had any plan to only write in one genre.

— Lisa Lutz

I take the same approach in all genres of art, across the board. It's intuitive.

— Erykah Badu

Action is not really my genre, but it's what people expect out of me. And it works, too.

— Prabhu Deva

I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.

— Benjamin Percy

I will literally read anything, regardless of genre, fiction or non-fiction, as long as it's well written.

— Diana Gabaldon

I'm not really a zombie genre guy; I'm not particularly versed in it. Doing 'The Walking Dead' sort of turned me on…

— Noah Emmerich

But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.

— Bruce Willis

I try to stay away from any genre. I like to just make music, and it just is what it is.

— Ravyn Lenae

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

— Herbie Hancock

In my mind, there's this one 'super genre,' which is the only genre that matters, and that's the super genre of good…

— Chris Thile

Pop just means popular - it can be any genre, and if it becomes popular, then it's pop music.

— Justin Tranter