Genre Quotes

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

I came late to the genre of folk music.

I'm not staying away from any genre. I'm trying to get scripts that I like.

The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.

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

The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that's not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The ones I love are the genre pictures with some subversive message underlying it all.

I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema.

I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys.

There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.

I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre.

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.

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.

The space genre is timeless.

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 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.

People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.

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.

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

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