Quotes About Genre

My dad was on 'Zombieland,' and I love that movie. So yeah, I think I like the horror genre!

I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.

I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books or was a horror buff.

I haven't done lots of horror.

The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.

The horror genre is important because it promotes experimentation in filmmaking.

Trying to break into the horror market seemed natural.

Horror will always be there, it always comes back, it's a familiar genre that some people, not everyone - it's sort of the cinema anchovies. You either like it or you don't.

I don't care for horror and fantasy films. I never go to see them in the theater. I know I've played in many of them, but I didn't do them because of their genre - I did them just because I loved their scripts.

I don't write that much horror. People tell me my books are scary, but they're not really; I don't go there.

I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.

I like horror; I like comedy; I like drama; I like action; I like female heroes.

The whole idea of genre and categorising films is a critic's construct. For me, I just try and make stories and see where they go, but there's nothing wrong with horror; there's nothing wrong with romantic comedies.

You decide you're going to do horror, then gosh darn it, do horror. Do what's expected. Don't kind of do it. Don't dilly-dally around, because people really enjoy the genre, and they expect certain things.

I love horror, fantasy and sci-fi. Those are my genres of love and devotion.

I spent years only ever reading horror and then trying to write horror - and deep down, a horror writer is still what I'd love to be. But it wasn't until I started writing crime that things began to work for me.

I grew up on genre. If it had a dragon on the cover, I was interested. But horror, especially, really gripped me in its bony fist.

Critics tend to be very hard on the horror genre.

Fundamentalism is rooted in fear, and it's another reason I'm interested in the horror genre, because I know the fear that fundamentalism is built upon.

I'm not going to work outside of genre. It's going to be horror, action, or sci-fi. I don't ever really see myself being interested in movies outside of that.

If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

I'm not a director to make an action or horror film. That's not for me.

I'm a huge horror film and sci-fi fan.

'Click' is a horror film and a first for me. People think I always had a face good enough to do films of this genre. So now I'd take that as a compliment.