Genre Quotes · Page 25

I love bossa nova. It's the most beautiful genre of music in the world.

— Camila Mendes

Genre is a useful thing when organizing texts in a bookshop but immaterial to the particular exchange between writer and reader.

— Rumaan Alam

I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it…

— Tania Raymonde

The funny thing about me is I move from genre to genre, but I essentially shoot all the movies the same way.

— James Mangold

I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.

— Dan Brown

It's actually one of my dreams to have my own album. My music genre is dark pop.

— Catriona Gray

The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.

— China Mieville

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single…

— Emma Donoghue

'Elect the Dead' is a rock record that takes you on a journey with different types of genres integrated, different lyrical themes…

— Serj Tankian

Like anything, I think there are some wonderful found footage movies, and there are some less good. Certainly when it's done well,…

— Drew Goddard

I think my sound differentiates me from everyone else. I'm able to dip and dabble in other genres, without feeling out of…

— Iceberg Slim

My stuff is my stuff. I do it for my own reasons, using my own peculiar set of guidelines. I'm not a…

— George A. Romero

It goes without saying that 'Buncha Losers' comedies speak to tough times. The massive unemployment of the Reagan years gave us 'Taxi,'…

— Rob Sheffield

In the meantime [1965-67], [Bob] Dylan was again writing some of the best love songs in the genre, like "Visions of Johanna,"…

— Bob Dylan

I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all…

— Anonymous

“Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields…

— Sara Sheridan

I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who…

— Kacey Musgraves

The action genre is kind of designed for a young male audience. But we found on 'The Matrix' that we hit the…

— Joel Silver

I come from a nation where fantastic fiction has a very low status, unless it fits into some very specific categories or…

— Karin Tidbeck

'The Watch' is first and foremost a comedy, but since I got to shoot the film using elements from the sci-fi genre,…

— Akiva Schaffer

It's a really diverse time in music, with all these different DJs and all these different categories, and we are all taking…

— Steve Aoki

While the romance genre has expanded so much over the years, in an odd way it's also narrowed, with too many people…

— JoAnn Ross

I'm not sure anybody's ready to see me in a drama. And loving movies so much, I've seen a lot of comics…

— Anonymous

I had a lot of issues with the genre, and I probably even had issues with the whole idea of genre. I…

— William Gibson

I don't want people just to take me for, you know, just being part of one genre.

— Sky Blu

It doesn't really matter what "genre" your book is. What matters is that it's a good book of its kind. Whatever that…

— Margaret Atwood

The kind of artist I would like to be is definitely versatile. I don't like being boxed in or put into a…

— La'Porsha Renae

I don't really think in terms of genre, I think in terms of story and character.

— Paul Rudd

I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.

— Guillermo del Toro

If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

— Yann Martel

From the time I was 20 and people would say, 'Chicks with Picks,' I hated it. It's not a genre, it's a…

— Margo Price

I tend to focus less on genre as a starting point and more on idea or intention and let the idea dictate…

— Vivek Shraya

I knew after 'Sarah Marshall' that my favorite genre is romantic comedy. Nothing is more satisfying than a great romantic comedy.

— Nicholas Stoller

I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.

— Charlie Kaufman

'The Godfather' is the talismanic giant that hangs over everything in the gangster genre.

— James Watkins

The transgressive nature of biography is rarely acknowledged, but it is the only explanation for biography's status as a popular genre.

— Janet Malcolm

I have done all of the genres, and the dramatic role is my favorite.

— Jeff Daniels

I always want to fulfill genre expectations and think that should be the bedrock of any film - then you can layer…

— Leigh Whannell

“Abolish music prejudices. Form opinions and love music for itself, not its genre, performer(s) or popularity status.”

— Abigail Biddinger

I think that it's really, really funny to see adult themes in a genre that's usually directed towards children.

— John DiMaggio