Genre Quotes

I'm looking for stories that make me sit up and take notice. For engagement with language and style in ways that the genre doesn't see enough of.

I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre.

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.

I would agree with you that there's 90% imitation and 10% innovation. That's true of any genre.

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

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

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

The space genre is timeless.

I never excluded any genre on my first record.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic depends on how far back your memory extends.

I don't choose my projects based on genre, I choose them based on the role and whether or not I've tackled that yet, based on the director and such.

Each genre exerts a considerable spell, as a kind of "form" to be filled, as a Shakespearean sonnet is filled.

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

I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres.

When you strip away the genre differences and the technological complexities, all games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and voluntary participation.

One of the things I would love to do, by the time I die, is be in every single genre. That would be really fun. I get to shoot guns and jump out of a helicopter.

I have my library separate from the family home, and every room is a different genre. The only room that I can guarantee I've read everything is the horror room.

I make unpopular versions of popular things. I make a horror film and it's not a horror film. None of my genre movies function as genre movies.

I love the gangster genre, but how many gangster movies are there? If I get a good gangster movie script, I'll do it.

You usually find me writing what I like to think of as intelligent summer action and genre films.

It's crazy to close doors to any genres.

I'm bored with the same genre, the same remakes of things. I like original ideas and high-concept things where it's off the page and kind of fantastical.

I don't think I make genre movies. There is a certain type of violence in my films but I think I have my own genre because I made it happen like that.

Genre stuff is the most exciting stuff for an actor to play. I get to try new things, do things I would have never got the chance to do.

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 the genre is the worst thing you can do - it's embarrassing.

If we don't keep people engaged, we're not going to move you. And if we move you, we've done something useful. That's what anybody who writes genre knows.

The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means.

The genre [of hard-partying girls] seems to have gone out of style - instead of young women who drink too much, it's young women who don't eat enough.

I think the act of lying can be separated from the genre of memoir. Though often times, people are unaware of their own subjectivity.

Ah, genre. A word only a Frenchman could love.

Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.