Genre Quotes
-
A scientific autobiography belongs to a most awkward literary genre. If the difficulties facing a man trying to record his life are great - and few have overcome them successfully - they are compounded in the case of scientists, of whom many lead monotonous and uneventful lives and who, besides, often do not know how to write . . .
-
I understand you guys know what you want and you stick with it. For me…as long as it’s soulful, and soulful to me is all kinds of music. You have soulful rock, soulful house…you’ve got soul R&B, there’s just so much of it. I don’t want to be pigeonholed into one particular genre. As long as it’s good, that’s what I’m interested in.
-
For a genre that's about looking to the future, science fiction has sure been looking backwards lately. Nostalgia is what sells best, with readers spending their money on movie tie-in novels and sequels to long-running series.
-
The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but, actually, it’s pompous and it’s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I’d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience.
-
What excites me is to know I don't have any limits, that it's quite an open project, more open than I thought it could be. To have this freedom to try very different things. I listen to lots of music from every genre.
-
We really invented the genre of tracing family trees and going back as far as we could on the paper trail. When the paper trail disappeared, we used DNA analysis. The technology was just being invented that allowed you to trace ancestry through DNA.
-
The awards are voted for by progressive rock fans, so it gives us an indication of where we stand within our genre. We are very lucky that some people like our music enough to want to vote for it. We are especially delighted that our music makes a strong connection with some people.
-
I'm not really a zombie genre guy, I'm not particularly versed in it. Doing 'The Walking Dead' sort of turned me on to the whole thing.
-
So the electronic fusion, as a songwriter, I find myself in different rooms working with R&B artists, rappers, so it was really hard for me to do just one genre of music.
-
Generational change within a genre is hard to parse while it's happening. Only in retrospect can the passing of the baton from ancestors to progeny be clearly discerned.
-
I root for all movies, but I especially root for good comic book movies. It's the best, most interesting genre going right now.
-
In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.
-
In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top
-
There's only one type of music and that's good music, no matter what genre it is.
-
What's fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.
-
If it's a good romantic movie like The Notebook or...The Longest Ride . No, I don't know. I thought it would be great to work on one of those genres and we made a pretty darn good version of one of those. There are some that come off as sort of cheesy, but this one was pretty good.
-
I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures.
-
There are no requirements when you're using a particular genre. It's not like the genre is your boss and you have to do what it says. You can make use of the genre any way you want to, as long as you can make it work.
-
My favorite genre of movies growing up was the romantic comedy.
-
What genre it falls under is only of interest later.
-
If we don't keep people engaged, we're not going to move you. And if we move you, we've done something useful. That's what anybody who writes genre knows.
-
The ideal for me is to mix it up. When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other fields, I like to have them all in the same workshop, and not worry about genre.
-
I'm a huge fan of the horror genre and the supernatural elements.
-
My eventual thing is like hopefully cats will really recognize that everything I’ve done that they considered outside of hip-hop, really was hip-hop at the end of the day and that maybe at the end of the day, I would love to be the guy that killed the word "genre".
