Genre Quotes · Page 24

I think that the people who put caps and the people who put genres on music are the people who are killing…

— Austin Carlile

Even in comedy genre, one can treat the story differently every time.

— Binnu Dhillon

ELANTRIS is a new BEN HUR for the fantasy genre, with a sweeping, epic storyline and closely personal characters.

— Kevin J. Anderson

The first three issues of 'Cemetery Dance' were mainly horror, but now it's really a cross-genre magazine. It's all just snowballed.

— Richard Chizmar

I still have a YA-genre-series type of a book in me that I really want to tell.

— Janet Mock

I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.

— Brian K. Vaughan

I don't believe any genre of music can be unilaterally dismissed (aside from like, white-power music or something).

— Patrick Stump

I don't want to limit myself to one genre and want to broaden it, more so in my 30s and 40s.

— Lee Min-ho

The professionalization of poetry, or the balkanization, has come out of the fact that when you apply to most creative writing programs,…

— Robert Hass

Coming out of school, sometimes people can be theater snobs. I only wanted to do theater, highbrow stuff. But what I learned…

— Wendell Pierce

Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see…

— Beck

I needed to get to know myself and really, really explore music without any pressure to sell it. I wanted to try…

— Tove Styrke

American fantasy is not a genre we think about too often. Sure, we are familiar with the worlds of English boarding school…

— Rebecca Serle

I listen to the Mars Volta and Fiona Apple every day. I feel if you do write music, you write what you…

— Christian Serratos

Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe a…

— James Berardinelli

I'm not comfortable with categorizing my own work, but I don't mind if others talk about it in relation to genre as…

— Karin Tidbeck

At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why…

— Orson Scott Card

I think there are fans who love the genre to begin with, and there are fans who love the comic book to…

— Steven Yeun

Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and…

— Andy Behrman

I've always been a huge fan of Patricia's [Rozema ], as a director and as a writer, and she's a friend. For…

— Ellen Page

One of the interesting things about the history of poetry in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries is that people who read…

— Robert Hass

It's not my job at the Institute to teach where people are in the art world - in the world of art…

— Lawrence Jordan

Thomas Mann used to write education novels and now you can write an education memoir, and there are all these memoirs coming…

— Marco Roth

I don't know where genre really comes from. I grew up with parents who were artists, and I was always interested in…

— Nils Frahm

For a while, the genre seemed to be just about sex and crime. Rappers are storytellers; the stories don't need to be…

— Lauryn Hill

I hate the term 'emo.' It turned into this genre of music, when all music, if you connect with it, is emotional.

— Sharon Van Etten

'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.

— Oscar Isaac

History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are…

— Jon Weisman

I really don't think I have a genre, honestly, 'cause I make such different music even though it is rap.

— Denzel Curry

I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms.

— Billy Corgan

There's not really genres as storytelling in Austria, unfortunately.

— Susanne Wuest

I don't want to pigeonhole myself in one character or genre. I want to challenge myself as much as I can.

— Emilie de Ravin

I have a very strong belief in what I like, or a very strong opinion in genre films that I like to…

— Chad Stahelski

I don't want to ever be categorized. I want to be able to hit every genre.

— Ski Mask the Slump God

Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'

— Brian K. Vaughan

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

— Robert Ballard

My genre of music is called Afro-Fusion because I fuse different types of music into a ball.

— Burna Boy

I think a good movie is a good movie whether that falls into a genre or not.

— Nicolas Cage

So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.

— Lady Gaga

Kevin' is a psychological horror film. It uses genre elements, so hopefully it's exciting to watch.

— Lynne Ramsay