Genre Quotes

631 Genre quotes by 516 unique authors

I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes… — Park Chan-wook
Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes.… — Ted Dekker
I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways. — Zooey Deschanel
I think the best comedic actors don't play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because it's real. Playing… — Zooey Deschanel
'Drown' was always a hybrid book. It's connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the reader to decide… — Junot Diaz
I am flattered that they think that many people would enjoy my work. I don't approach any genre a different way than I may approach… — Vin Diesel
Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre. — Junot Diaz
I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human. — Lena Dunham
It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre. — Robert Duvall
I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me… — Roger Ebert
Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy. — Roger Ebert
I don't like to label films with a genre. — Tom Felton
With Australian audiences, there's a certain level of education - as far as how much access and exposure they have to music from various genres.… — Lupe Fiasco
The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century. — Ken Follett
I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one. — Mark Haddon
I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes horror. — Kirk Hammett
I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can. — Herbie Hancock
I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music. — Herbie Hancock
Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music. — Herbie Hancock
As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody. — Michael Haneke
Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before it, especially in… — Steve Harvey
One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you care about the… — Ethan Hawke
'New' movies are almost always hipper, faster, they mix genres aggressively, they smother their genre origins in new form, there are fewer of them, and… — Stephen Hunter
It's cool to play a vampire and be a part of this new, hot genre. — Josh Hutcherson
I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres. — Jessie J

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