Genre Quotes

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.

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

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.

Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up.

The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.

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

I really like the old stuff that I cut my musical teeth on, and I loved it when the industry was just like that, without really a genre. Today, country radio's more aimed at a demographic than a genre. It just softens everything.

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.

If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

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

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

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

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.

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.

We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.

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 was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time.

Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.

The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.

Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.

It doesn't matter to me what the genre is.

Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for.

I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.

Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.