Quotes About Genre

I love a good harsh horror movie, when it's done well. But there are times when it feels cynical. You can tell when a filmmaker loves the genre, and you can tell when someone's just cashing in a paycheck. Then it becomes a dumbing down - a fetishisation of violence that I react very strongly against.

I always feel like you can take a genre that has a familiar structure to it and then reinvent it as a character piece. Suddenly, what's old is new again. With 'Fargo,' I adapted a movie without any of the characters or the story. Yet somehow it feels like 'Fargo.'

Struggling writers are often advised to pick a simple genre, but it doesn't work that way.

They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.

I had decided after 'Hollow Man' to stay away from science fiction. I felt I had done so much science fiction. Four of the six movies I made in Hollywood are science-fiction oriented, and even 'Basic Instinct' is kind of science fiction.

I enjoy the hero genre more than anything else. I enjoy origin stories. I enjoy doing stories about people who learn what they are capable of.

My dad was into classic rock and R&B, which I originally started in. And then my mom did the country.

My whole way of looking at entertainment and audience engagement - and my ability to go from one genre to another - comes from my experience in New Orleans.

I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.

We never said we were hard-core or that we didn't want our music crossing over or being popular.

We come from a more alternative rock band background, and it's interesting to see the things that people think we should or shouldn't do since our music is a little bit poppier.

I like that outlaw crossover rock 'n' roll-country sound.

Now because the film industry is what it is, if people are expecting a certain film genre and they're not getting it, there are howls of outrage.

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

It doesn't matter the genre or type of art, if it's authentic there's an apparent beauty to it and as an artist, that's very inspiring.

The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means.

I take the same approach in all genres of art, across the board. It's intuitive.

I was fortunate to be connected with bands who later became pioneers for certain genres of music scenes. And my art went along with them for that ride and became associated with it.

Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.

The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.

My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films.

I think, if one is a true art lover, he can't stick to a particular genre. Art knows no partitions, no boundaries.

Parody of revenge/recidivism action genre, a formerly delinquent nun's (Hurley's) failure to reform a juvenile delinquent (Chumm) leads to a rampage of recidivist revenge.