100+ Genre Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "Drama Queens : A Conversation With Mezzo-Soprano Joyce DiDonato". Interview with Sean Martinfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2012.

topic: Thinking, Baroque Music, Genre, Ive Learned, Baroque

I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

- Julianna Baggott

topic: Writing, Boundaries, Genre

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

topic: Ridiculous, Purity, Genre

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

- Keith Carradine

topic: Genre, Familiar, Western

I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.

- Keith Carradine

topic: Thinking, Genre, Western

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

- Ken Follett

topic: Century, Thrillers, Genre, Literary Genre, Thriller Genre

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

- Leslie Banks

topic: Writing, Imagination, Genre, Beacons, Paranormal

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

topic: Actors, Next, Genre

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

topic: Kissing, Six, Genre, Citations

I love country music. I don't ever feel restricted by the genre.

- Martina McBride

topic: Country, Country Love, Genre

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.

- Matt Haig

source: Matt Haig (2014). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

topic: Book, Fiction, Genre

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

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Mind, Comedy, Genre

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

- Michael Haneke

topic: Film, Genre, Parody

James McMurtry is a true Americana poet - actually he is a poet regardless of genre

- Michael Nesmith

topic: Poet, Genre, Americana

I feel like R&B as a genre has become a caricature of itself.

- Miguel

topic: Genre, Feels, Caricatures

I'm not necessarily that big of a clubbing junkie, but I really like dance music as a genre.

- Mika

topic: Bigs, Genre, Junkie, Dance Music

I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.

- Mika

topic: Thinking, Genre, Genres Of Music

I would agree 'Paul' is a sci-fi genre movie. And a road movie.

- Nick Frost

topic: Sci Fi, Genre, Agree

If I love the character, then thats all that matters to me. It doesnt really matter what genre it is.

- Olivia Cooke

source: "Olivia Cooke Talks BATES MOTEL, Season 1 Surprises, Emma’s Relationship Statuses, Love Interests, Scares, and Murders, Plus THE QUIET ONES and OUIJA". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 24, 2014.

topic: Character, Matter, Genre

All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.

- Pedro Almodovar

topic: Mixing, Genre, Difficult, Eclectic Style, Eclectic

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

topic: Speech, Definitions, Genre, Literary Genre, Figures Of Speech

I love dabbling in different genres, and I like being good at different genres of cinema.

- Priyanka Chopra

topic: Cinema, Different, Genre, Dabbling

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

- Rick Moody

topic: Bookstores, Problem, Genre, Literary Genre

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.

- Robert Pinsky

source: "How My Mind Writes Poems" by Robert Pinsky, bigthink.com.

topic: Notorious, Genre, Autobiography

I try not to discriminate against genres.

- Ryan Gosling

topic: Trying, Genre, Genres Of Music

The prose of Joe Pulver can take its place with that of the masters of our genre â€“ E.A. Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Ligotti â€“ while his imaginative reach is something uniquely his own.

- S. T. Joshi

topic: Lovecraft, Masters, Genre

As an actor, I am meant to dabble with different themes and genres.

- Sanjay Dutt

topic: Different, Actors, Genre

The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.

- Sara Paretsky

topic: Crime, Favourite, Genre, Crime Novels

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

topic: Cosmos, Coming To An End, Genre

I never set out to be part of a genre, because I listen to all types of music.

- Skrillex

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Type, Genre

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

- Steve Buscemi

topic: Matter, Genre

You can apply the same heart, the same sense of euphoria to any genre.

- Stuart Price

topic: Heart, Genre, Euphoria

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

- Tanith Lee

topic: Casting, Vote, Genre

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

source: "Theo James Talks BEDLAM and UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 30, 2011.

topic: Creating, Messages, Genre, Underworld

I feel most comfortable keeping versatile when it comes to music genres.

- Thia Megia

topic: Genre, Feels, Genres Of Music

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

- Thomas Jane

topic: Great Love, Love And Respect, Genre

I don't like to label films with a genre.

- Tom Felton

topic: Labels, Film, Genre

I came late to the genre of folk music.

- Tom Morello

topic: Genre, Folks, Folk Music

Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know... It's just good entertainment.

- Tom Selleck

topic: Entertainment, Hollywood, Genre

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

- Vikas Swarup

source: Vikas Swarup (2008). “Slumdog Millionaire: A Novel”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

topic: Artist, Fit, Genre

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

- Walter Benjamin

topic: Literature, Great Work, Genre

Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.

- Walter Jon Williams

topic: Labels, Helping, Genre

I like to deconstruct things, deconstruct genres and stories.

- Will Gluck

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Stories, Genre

There's only one type of music and that's good music, no matter what genre it is.

- will.i.am

topic: Matter, Type, Genre

Science fiction is a genre that no everyone is keen on watching.

- Zoe Saldana

topic: Fiction, Science Fiction, Genre

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

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Genre, Jerry

Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry.

- Chika Anadu

topic: Film, Genre, Industry

I just want to see a good movie. Fortunately, good movies come in all sorts of genres.

- Colin Cunningham

source: "Colin Cunningham Talks FALLING SKIES Season 2, the Fun of Being the Antagonist, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 07, 2012.

topic: Good Movie, Want, Genre

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

- David Hayter

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Done, Horror, Genre

I don't watch something just because it's a specific genre.

- Drew Roy

topic: Watches, Genre

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

source: Source: www.sfsignal.com

topic: Way, Natural, Genre

I don't know what genre I've fallen into, I don't know where it is, and that's really exciting.

- Erol Alkan

source: Source: thequietus.com

topic: Genre, Exciting, Fallen

A divinely expressed performance in any genre sets me completely on fire.

- Idara Victor

topic: Fire, Genre, Performances

I'm eager to do movies of different genres. I would love to not be confined by genre and do a lot of different things.

- Jason Winer

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Different, Genre, Confined

I don't consider genre while writing.

- Karin Tidbeck

source: Source: www.raintaxi.com

topic: Writing, Genre

I've never really been into the sci-fi genre myself.

- Marie Avgeropoulos

topic: Sci Fi, Genre

Podiobooks rules. It's still the best way I know to find an audience for longer works in any genre.

- Nathan Lowell

topic: Way, Genre, Audience

I always find myself pulled back into the fantasy genre, and I can't really explain it.

- Nick Willing

topic: Fantasy, Genre, I Can

I put things on shuffle a lot, which is probably why I don't have a very good idea of genre.

- Oliver Sim

topic: Ideas, Genre, Very Good, Shuffle

It's hard to put my music in a specific genre, but if you had to, "instrumental cyber metal" would be an accurate one.

- Paul Wardingham

topic: Would Be, Cyber, Genre

I'm not sure what kept me from the mainstream. I thought it was because I was too hard to pin down genre-wise.

- Princess Superstar

topic: Wise, Mainstream, Genre

There's not really genres as storytelling in Austria, unfortunately.

- Susanne Wuest

topic: Austria, Storytelling, Genre

I have been exposed to most musical genres and have learned how to tackle them effectively.

- Wendy Starland

topic: Musical, Genre, Exposed

A good song can be produced in several different genres.

- Wendy Starland

topic: Song, Different, Genre

- Mary Harron

source: Source: www.believermag.com

topic: Horror, Film, Genre

One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with the reader.

- Cate Marvin

source: Source: www.redividerjournal.org

topic: Reason, Genre, Term

I am all about switching between genres and doing as much as possible.

- David Koechner

topic: Switching, Genre

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

- DJ Shadow

source: Source: www.highsnobiety.com

topic: Innovation, Imitation, Genre

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

- Graham King

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Scripts, Gangster Movie, Genre

There are so many music genres competing against each other, but I feel like country music has always been a unified front.

- Hillary Scott

topic: Country, Genre, Competing

I'm very rarely interested in genres. As long as I feel I can put my DNA out there in the ideology, it works for me.

- Tarsem Singh

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Dna, Long, Genre

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

topic: Stars, Discovery, Genre

I'm a fantasy writer. I don't do SF. This is important to me. If you're not clear on what genre you're in, everything gets muddled, and it's hard to know which rules you're breaking.

- Lev Grossman

source: "INTERVIEW: Lev Grossman on Writing ‘The Magician King’, Narnia and the Line Between SF and Fantasy". Interview with Andrew Liptak, www.sfsignal.com. August 17, 2011.

topic: Important, Fantasy, Genre

It's just cool to do something different and branch out and dabble in different genres.

- Lights

topic: Different, Branches, Genre, Different Genres

Life isn't divided into genres

- Alan Moore

topic: Genre, Divided

When you're outside of genre, you can expose more vulnerability.

- Jenny Hval

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Genre, Vulnerability

I'm just looking for material that excites me more than any specific genre. It just needs to be good.

- Christina Hendricks

source: "EMMYS: Q&A With Supporting Drama Actress Nominee Christina Hendricks". Interview with Ray Richmond, deadline.com. August 11, 2010.

topic: Needs, Genre, Be Good

It's not about what you get out but what you put into hip hop as a genre.

- Chuck D

topic: Hip Hop, Hips, Genre

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

- Jessie J

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Emotional, Different, Genre, Different Genres Of Music

I love suspense movies, because in a sense they're the most dreamlike of any genre, and I'm sure I'll make another one.

- Curtis Hanson

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Suspense, Genre

I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.

- Terry Pratchett

topic: Knighthood, Genre, Glad, Stunned

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

- Margaret Atwood

source: Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. October 17, 2011.

topic: Writing, Genre, Mediocre

I was crazy about the song "Doot Doot," so I usually love this genre of weird, European electronic.

- Margaret Cho

source: "Margaret Cho on why Yello's "Oh Yeah" reminds her of sex clubs and John Hughes". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. March 02, 2016.

topic: Song, Crazy, Genre

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.

- George Saunders

source: "Achenblog. John Updike". voices.washingtonpost.com. January 27, 2009.

topic: Lucky, Generations, Genre

It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.

- Andrew Scott

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Comedy, Genre

I don't have a checklist. Whatever material excites me, they'll call for a certain genre or combination of genres. It'll come naturally and I'll be eager to learn how that thing works. I learn the rules, and I'll probably break some of them.

- Ang Lee

source: "Ang Lee Talks LIFE OF PI, the Difficulty of Getting the Project Off the Ground, 3D as a New Artistic Form, Deleted Scenes and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 3, 2012.

topic: Break, Genre, Checklists

I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.

- Guillermo del Toro

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Safe, Something New, Genre

Now chart music is a genre all of its own and it's slipped away from what I understand pop music as. It's pretty difficult to take; it clogs up the airwaves.

- Johnny Marr

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Genre, Pops, Difficult

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

- Dean Koontz

topic: Genre Is, Fiction, Genre

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

- Ursula K. Le Guin

topic: Genre, Frenchmen

Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

topic: Genre Is, Used, Genre

Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres.

- Avicii

source: "Avicii's mix of EDM and country has given ravers a wake-up call" by David Renshaw, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2013.

topic: Viruses, Different, Genre, Different Genres Of Music, Dance Music

Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.

- Vanna Bonta

source: "Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview". Interview with Laurel van der Linde, 2007.

topic: Literature, Genre, Be Good, Good Literature

I met someone who said they'd figured out my genre: "madcap redemption comedy." I'll buy that.

- Harold Ramis

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Redemption, Comedy, Genre

I just like movies, not one particular kind or genre. In fact, movies that are harder to classify I like more.

- Rob Zombie

topic: Facts, Kind, Genre

The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.

- Viggo Mortensen

source: "The happy trails of Viggo Mortensen". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2009.

topic: Holocaust, These Days, Genre

I love the idea that all genres can have subsets.

- Robert Englund

source: Source: graveconcernsezine.com

topic: Ideas, Genre

I do genre films because I like them, or because I need the money.

- Robert Englund

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Needs, Film, Genre

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But there is always a time and a place for the subsets within genres.

- Robert Englund

source: Source: graveconcernsezine.com

topic: Sometimes, Genre

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

- Joyce Carol Oates

source: "Writing Lessons From the Madly Prolific Joyce Carol Oates". Interview with Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. September 10, 2016.

topic: Kind, Form, Genre

Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.

- Michael Moore

topic: War, Documentaries, Genre, Post War

I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.

- Julianna Baggott

source: Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

topic: Different, Needs, Genre

Each genre has something to teach me about the others. Not all the lessons are transferable, but many of the most important ones are.

- Julianna Baggott

source: Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

topic: Important, Lessons, Genre

J-Lo finally married into her own music genre. Crappy music.

- Doug Benson

source: "Best Week Ever". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2004-.

topic: Music, Married, Genre

'Drown' was always a hybrid book. It's connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the reader to decide which genre they thought the book belonged to more - story, novel, neither, both.

- Junot Diaz

topic: Book, Stories, Genre

I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong.

- Roger Ebert

topic: Research, Found, Genre, Prove Me Wrong

I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures.

- Wes Craven

source: Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

topic: World, Horror, Genre

I love mixing up my genres.

- Rosanne Cash

topic: Mixing, Genre

I'm a horror movie fan to begin with, so to come back to the genre, I feel like horror has been very good to me.

- Kathy Bates

source: Source: guff.com

topic: Fans, Horror, Genre

The thriller genre in general, it's total foreign ground for me.

- Katie Aselton

source: Source: www.gq.com

topic: Thrillers, Genre, Thriller Genre

Quality is subjective. There are quality blockbusters; there are quality versions of every genre and it doesn't necessarily mean money.

- Rufus Sewell

source: Source: www.thehollywoodnews.com

topic: Mean, Quality, Genre, Subjective

Readers want more of the same from you. So stick to one genre.

- Ruskin Bond

source: Source: www.abhijitbhaduri.com

topic: Want, Sticks, Genre

Genres pop up and get hot and then they die down.

- Bruce Campbell

source: Source: www.empireonline.com

topic: Hot, Genre, Pops

I don't care about the genre so much. I'm good with horror, but I like other genres, too.

- Bruce Campbell

source: "Ash vs Evil Dead": Bruce Campbell Talks Blood, Sidekicks, and Hating Ash’s Car". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 31, 2015.

topic: Care, Horror, Genre

If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

- Yann Martel

topic: Writing, Fiction, Genre

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

- Lady Gaga

topic: Hate, Provocative, Genre

There are no authors in my genre. No one is doing what I do.

- Nicholas Sparks

source: "Nicholas Sparks, Miley Cyrus share a 'Last Song' love story" by Anthony Breznican, usatoday30.usatoday.com.

topic: Genre

I would agree Paul is a sci-fi genre movie. And a road movie.