Genre Quotes

Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.

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

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.

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

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!

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.