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Quotes About 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
If I love the character, then thats all that matters to me. It doesnt really matter what genre it is.
~ Olivia Cooke
Ah, genre. A word only a Frenchman could love.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Don't want to hear my favorite rapper doin' a love song. If I want to hear something soft, I'll throw on Luther Vandross.
~ Ice Cube
I love westerns, I'd love to make more of them.
~ Jeff Bridges
I love music; I was never the type of singer to say, "This is my specific genre, or I only sing R&B music." I feel like as a singer, you should be limitless and you shouldn't be stuck in a box.
~ Heather Headley
I love country music. I don't ever feel restricted by the genre.
~ Martina McBride
Hard SF is the literature of change, the genre that examines the implications—both beneficial and dangerous—of new sciences and technologies.
~ Ben Bova
I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
~ Mahershala Ali
'Dark Circles' is a great relationship/character piece and also a horror film. It tinkered with the genre, which I loved. I was sick of seeing the same thing, sick of people just trying to get a movie made.
~ Johnathon Schaech
I don't think, as an actor, you should define what genre you want to do. Once you do that, you lose the sight to see the film and what its story is all about.
~ Nushrat Bharucha
The music that I've had out so far was obviously very pop, but when I signed with Hollywood Records, I was like, 'I know that's the music you're familiar with, but that's not what I want to sing. I want to do country.' They were on board with it!
~ Lucy Hale
If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy, I've always written horror stories and monster stories, right from the beginning of my career. I've always moved back and forth between the genres. I don't really recognise that there's a significant difference between them in some senses.
~ George R. R. Martin
Saying someone's a fan of animation is as silly as saying someone's a fan of live action. That can mean anything.
~ Raphael Bob-Waksberg
I don't pick my roles by genre; that's kind of silly.
~ Michael Shannon
The first Amy Silver book was commissioned, and they were not books that came completely from me. They weren't necessarily the sort of books I read, and although I enjoyed doing them very much, and they were great training, I never felt completely comfortable in that genre.
~ Paula Hawkins
Dramas are incredibly compelling. I feel like 'Silver Linings Playbook' is a drama, but because it's funny, people market it as a comedy.
~ David Lowery
It's cool to play a vampire and be a part of this new, hot genre.
~ Josh Hutcherson
subject" and "genre" are distinctions necessary for shelving a book, but necessarily ruinous distinctions for writing a book deserving of shelving
~ Joshua Cohen
I swear, I have really tried to care about genres or categories, but I find myself sadly unable to do so. I will enjoy anything, anything, as long as it comes written in language that is personal to the point of idiosyncratic, euphonious, revealing and precise. I avoid any kind of writing that doesn't fill these requirements. I don't care which genre it belongs to.
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.
~ Juan Goytisolo
We're quite different from each other. Camila is the pop girl, Lauren likes the indie sound, Normani and I love R&B, and Ally is the pop-country, kind of church girl.
~ Dinah Jane
I listen to a lot of indie or rock music.
~ Jennifer Damiano
I never identified with 'indie,' I don't like that word.
~ Rostam Batmanglij