Quotes About Genre

I really wanted to make a dungeon crawler, but this game came out, 'Legend of Grimrock 2,' which was, like, the perfect dungeon crawler. It basically destroyed the genre for me, and no way could I make a game that good in that genre.

I always feel that crime films are about capitalism because it is a genre where it is perfectly acceptable for all the characters to be motivated by the desire for money. In some ways, the crime film is the most honest American film because it portrays Americans as I experience a lot of them, in Hollywood, as being very concerned with money.

I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.

It has been my experience that the greatest performers in the genre of sports-entertainment are usually natural extensions of their own, true personality.

Something about the genre of period drama feels so quintessentially British.

I really love music that's on the periphery of not fitting into a clear genre. I felt like I was constantly being described as something I didn't really feel like I identified with.

El virtuosismo de los ingleses en el género biográfico es sin duda una consecuencia de la antigüedad de sus instituciones democráticas y del culto al individuo que de ello se deriva.

I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.

Almost every genre film made for a while was an Anti-Genre Film. With the idea behind the film being to expose the absurdity and unsavory politics that have hidden underneath said genre since the beginning of Hollywood

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.

'I Love Lucy,' the first classic, really belonged more to the Wacky Woman genre than the domestic sitcom; 'My Little Margie' and 'I Married Joan' were among the shrill, coarse imitations.

I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.

Sometimes I wake up, and I'm a little bit grumpy, and I listen to soul. Sometimes I wake up, and I need some spirit, so I listen to rock n' roll. It depends on the mood I'm in.

I don't wake up thinking about the genre of R&B as a whole. I just make music.

I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.

I don't go to horror movies. I walked out of 'The Exorcist,' man.

I think Walking Dead is more of a stretch for me because I'm a light hearted superhero kind of guy.

I pretty much like all music except for country. I'm not a big fan of country.

Without the jazz influence, the Black Sabbath drumming would be very different.

I love bluegrass music, I love acoustic music, and I try at the right times to push that a little bit.

I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.

I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.

Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?

I don't enjoy watching action films, but I loved films like 'Rust and Bone' and 'The Beat That My Heart Skipped.'