Genre famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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As a music supervisor, you learn to embrace the best of every genre, and I really have to say there's nothing that I'm embarrassed of.
-- Alexandra Patsavas -
There cannot exist in the future an economy which is still mercantile but which isn't capitalist anymore. Before capitalism there were economies which were partially mercantile, but capitalism is the last of this genre.
-- Amadeo Bordiga -
My focus is to not focus too much on one genre.
-- Amanda Seyfried -
Genre, to me, is not all that important, and it never has been.
-- Amos Lee -
I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.
-- Amy Tan -
The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.
-- Andre Bazin -
Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres
-- Avicii -
I'm not loyal to one genre. I want to mix it up.
-- Benedict Cumberbatch -
Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.
-- Billy Corgan -
There's not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
-- Billy Gibbons -
When I was a kid, I was always watching genre movies on TV.
-- Bong Joon-ho -
I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.
-- Brian K. Vaughan -
Know your genre. Know your history. Read a book.
-- Brian Keene -
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.
-- Bruce Willis -
Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.
-- Carlos Fuentes -
To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.
-- Chester Bennington -
Im a huge fan of the James Bond genre.
-- Chris Diamantopoulos -
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.
-- Christopher Nolan -
This is not an international thriller so much as a fiercely literate attempt to subvert the thriller genre itself.
-- Christopher Rice -
Whatever your favorite genre is, you can probably trace your love for it back to one single book that really moved you.
-- David Farland -
I never excluded any genre on my first record.
-- Deana Carter -
Getting back into the action genre is like going back home. It's great.
-- Dwayne Johnson -
The philosophy has always been pretty clean and straightforward which is if I see something that I like and I can see its value to the audience, its value to me, then I'm going to take my shot at it, regardless of the genre.
-- Dwayne Johnson -
The goal [of mine] was always to work in as many different genres as I possibly could.
-- Dwayne Johnson -
I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.
-- Edward Norton -
It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre.
-- Eli Roth -
I'm not staying away from any genre. I'm trying to get scripts that I like.
-- Emile Hirsch -
A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contrived images that usually stem from this genre.
-- Eve Arnold -
I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre.
-- Gemma Chan -
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!
-- George A. Romero -
If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.
-- George A. Romero -
I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.
-- Herbie Hancock -
What interests me about genre is that the public connects immediately with it, it has certain rules, certain codes the audience recognizes. I can use that to create something very big.
-- Jacques Audiard -
I think I'm sort of locked into the sitcom genre
-- Jason Marsden -
Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
-- Jasper Fforde -
I'm developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything's possible.
-- Jay Roach -
La de couverte d'un mets nouveau fait plus pour le bonheur du genre humain que la de couverte d'une e toile. The discoveryof a newdish doesmore for thehappiness of mankind than the discovery of a star.
-- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin -
I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.
-- Jeanette -
As a genre, videogames take our minds on journeys, and we can control and experience them much more interactively than passively - especially when they are well-designed.
-- John Maeda -
I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.
-- Jonathan Lethem -
Genres give a vocabulary. They give a frame of reference for the audience to enter into a movie. Then, once they have their footing, that's when you can start doing things that they don't expect.
-- Joseph Gordon-Levitt -
I love all genres. The only thing I get stymied by is the Family Drama. I don't necessarily know how to approach that.
-- Joss Whedon -
I think Ive learned more about Baroque music than any other genre.
-- Joyce DiDonato -
I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.
-- Julianna Baggott -
All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.
-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.
-- Keith Carradine -
I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.
-- Keith Carradine -
The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.
-- Ken Follett -
I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.
-- Leslie Banks -
I love seeing when actors go from one genre to the next because I feel like most of them can pull it off.
-- Malin Akerman -
In the concordance of Nicola Six's kisses there were many subheads and subsections, many genres and phyla - chapter and verse, cross-references, multiple citations.
-- Martin Amis -
I love country music. I don't ever feel restricted by the genre.
-- Martina McBride -
There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.
-- Matt Haig -
Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don't mind saying that, it's true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them.
-- Meg Ryan -
As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.
-- Michael Haneke -
James McMurtry is a true Americana poet - actually he is a poet regardless of genre
-- Michael Nesmith -
I feel like R&B as a genre has become a caricature of itself.
-- Miguel -
I'm not necessarily that big of a clubbing junkie, but I really like dance music as a genre.
-- Mika -
I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.
-- Mika -
I would agree 'Paul' is a sci-fi genre movie. And a road movie.
-- Nick Frost -
If I love the character, then thats all that matters to me. It doesnt really matter what genre it is.
-- Olivia Cooke -
All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.
-- Pedro Almodovar -
I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.
-- Pope Francis -
I love dabbling in different genres, and I like being good at different genres of cinema.
-- Priyanka Chopra -
Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.
-- Rick Moody -
Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.
-- Robert Pinsky -
The prose of Joe Pulver can take its place with that of the masters of our genre – E.A. Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Ligotti – while his imaginative reach is something uniquely his own.
-- S. T. Joshi -
As an actor, I am meant to dabble with different themes and genres.
-- Sanjay Dutt -
The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.
-- Sara Paretsky -
I don't gravitate toward any particular genre. I like to do things that interest me, regardless of genre. I've had a blast doing Cosmos, and I'm said that it's coming to an end. I would like to do something else like that.
-- Seth MacFarlane -
I never set out to be part of a genre, because I listen to all types of music.
-- Skrillex -
You can apply the same heart, the same sense of euphoria to any genre.
-- Stuart Price -
Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.
-- Tanith Lee -
What I like about the 'Underworld' thing is that it's a mix of cool genres, as well as creating its own message.
-- Theo James -
I feel most comfortable keeping versatile when it comes to music genres.
-- Thia Megia -
I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.
-- Thomas Jane -
Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know... It's just good entertainment.
-- Tom Selleck -
A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.
-- Vikas Swarup -
All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.
-- Walter Benjamin -
Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.
-- Walter Jon Williams -
I like to deconstruct things, deconstruct genres and stories.
-- Will Gluck -
There's only one type of music and that's good music, no matter what genre it is.
-- will.i.am -
Science fiction is a genre that no everyone is keen on watching.
-- Zoe Saldana -
What I love more than anything is Jerry Goldsmith's 80's music and Bernard Herrmann's genre music from the 50's and 60's.
-- Bear McCreary -
Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry.
-- Chika Anadu -
I just want to see a good movie. Fortunately, good movies come in all sorts of genres.
-- Colin Cunningham -
When a horror movie is well done, I love it and I put it up in esteem with any other genre.
-- David Hayter -
I don't watch something just because it's a specific genre.
-- Drew Roy -
Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural.
-- Edward M. Lerner -
I don't know what genre I've fallen into, I don't know where it is, and that's really exciting.
-- Erol Alkan -
A divinely expressed performance in any genre sets me completely on fire.
-- Idara Victor
