Genre Quotes

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

I love mixing up my genres.

In some ways we want definitions that can help protect our own interpretations of the genre.

I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

I hope to be on the scene for a long time. I'd love to be old and gray and still be working in this [horror] genre.

The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.

It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television

I feel like people, when it comes to music, whatever genre, they relate to the story more than just the song.

But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing.

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

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

One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.

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

The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.

I think Ive learned more about Baroque music than any other genre.

I could not flourish in the Hollywood system because the first thing spoken about is "What genre is it?" and "Who's it for?" It's a very strange question to me; it's for human beings.

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.

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.

Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past.

I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.

I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.

I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.

When a horror movie is well done, I love it and I put it up in esteem with any other genre.

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

When I was a kid, you listened to a certain genre. Now it's like, "I love indie rock, I love hip-hop, jazz, funk." Also, we knew it couldn't be the same thing each year.

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

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.

I never excluded any genre on my first record.

The space genre is timeless.

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

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

'Fringe' is a sci-fi show. But once you go beyond the genre, you're immersed in a profound reality.

To me, as a musician, there aren't any boundaries genre-wise as far as what can you listen to to inspire you.

He [ the son]'s grown up listening to all types of music, and the natural form of rebellion is to find the one genre that maybe he hasn't listened to and to make that his thing.

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

Trombone virtuoso and innovative composer, Papo combines the best of jazz and Latin music to create a genre that is unique and wild. He's redefined Latin jazz!

I think I'm sort of locked into the sitcom genre

I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.

What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.

Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Ursula Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.

Science fiction still is an idea genre.

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

A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.

I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.