Genre Quotes · Page 29

The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

— Andre Bazin

I never thought I would do a game show, but now I guess I'm now officially in that genre.

— Jeff Foxworthy

I think there's only one reason to write in any genre or to any particular age group: You are called to it.…

— Greg van Eekhout

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

— Jean Marais

The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork.

— William F. Nolan

Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.

— Vanna Bonta

If you're writing a detective novel or horror or sci-fi, you want to expand or reinvigorate the genre in your own little…

— Colson Whitehead

My voice makes the genre because I sound like me on all my songs - I've made my own genre: Jorja Smith.

— Jorja Smith

I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre…

— R. A. Salvatore

I'm going to go with this pop/soul genre that I'm really loving and have always loved. I hope it does well for…

— Brynn Cartelli

If I spent my time wondering about what genre I wanted to be in or where I was on the charts, I…

— Jason Isbell

If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a…

— Charlie Jane Anders

Eventually, I came to believe, stupidly, that I had exhausted that story's "original" form with its single use. I went on to…

— Norman Lock

Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion…

— Anonymous

I am completely open to doing a romantic comedy, but I will never do something just for the sake of doing a…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded…

— Franz Grillparzer

I suppose there is something appealing about a word that everyone uses with absolute confidence but on whose exact meaning no two…

— Michael Chabon

Even when something's funny, it has to be well-written, too. So we are really aware of the craft part of pop music.…

— Ron Mael

Our whole mission is about breaking the rules. Cibo Matto doesn't fit into any one genre and when people ask about what…

— Miho Hatori

“A lot of people still maintain genre prejudice. I still meet matrons who tell me kindly that their children enjoyed my books…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That…

— William Gibson

My paintings are loosely based on meta narratives. The pictures float in and out of pictorial genres. Still life's become personified, portraits…

— Dana Schutz

Yes, to me that's one of the most compelling fears in film noir and the psychological thriller genre - that fear of…

— Christopher Nolan

There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock n' roll in soul, there's rock n'…

— John Varvatos

“I mean, if Native languages have no gender, then why should we? And why, for that matter, should God?”

— Tomson Highway

I just can't belong to a genre, because I don't know what I would want it to be.

— Santan Dave

I feel lucky that I have been getting nice roles in the comic genre.

— Rajpal Yadav

I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die.

— Roberta Williams

I have been fortunate at being part of a contrasting genre of films and I portrayed a huge range of characters in…

— Rituparna Sengupta

One of the mistakes I made was believing that the rock n' roll genre as a genre was much more free than…

— Joan Jett

Hate walks hand in hand with hate, and black metal especially is a genre that is full of white power bands.

— Blake Judd

'Slow West' is a western, and it's sort of a twist on the genre stylistically, I think, from what I understand going…

— Ben Mendelsohn

The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations.

— Brian Pinkerton

I don't really care that much about genre labels. I tend to write across a variety of different genres.

— Ken Liu

Genre hopping is something I intend to do, and I intend to do it forever and ever because I think genres are…

— Jack Garratt

I devour books. But for the longest time, I refused to pay attention to genre or labels.

— Alison Tyler

This genre of music seems to want to push people into a certain time slot, which is unfortunate.

— Juice Newton

I watched a lot of cooking shows when I was younger on PBS and TLC and those channels. It's a very cool…

— Thu Tran

The medical genre is beloved, and there are so many great stories to be told - and that's why it's so popular.

— Matt Czuchry

“I write across several genres. I’m a slut for words. I can’t keep it in my literary pants.”

— Fierce Dolan