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Quotes About Genre

The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.
~ Stewart Copeland
If a film is suitable for family viewing, it should remain so, and if a film has some adult content, it should remain so, and these genres should never be mixed and spoil the vision of the story teller.
~ Vijay Sethupathi
Science fiction as a genre has the benefit of being able to act as parable, to set up a story at a remove so you can make a real-world point without people throwing up a wall in front of
~ Joe Haldeman
For me, there's something about a certain kind of genre film that has real potency in its emotional landscape.
~ Karyn Kusama
I don't believe in comedy as a TV genre - I think there's drama that is funny. Because beyond the laughs, there has to be cost, and there has to be heart.
~ Michaela Coel
I really like a lot of American country stuff, so my music has that influence, but I don't like to be set within a genre. It feels very limiting.
~ Jade Bird
Enter Shikari are a mash-up of everything. I used to really love dubstep when they first came out. They had those amazing basslines, so I loved going to the live shows.
~ Anne-Marie
I don't really feel the loyalty to any particular genre. To be completely honest, I'm an R&B singer because I'm black and I sing.
~ Brent Faiyaz
I like hip-hop personally. It is a genre I am very attached to and have been listening to all my life. But I have always engaged with foreign artistes, never with mainstream Indian hip-hop rap space.
~ Zoya Akhtar
Somewhere in the '80s during the home video era something happened and horror started getting more and more marginalized and thought of as schlock.
~ Leigh Whannell
The martial arts genre a lot of times has been relegated to B-level action.
~ Justin Lin
First and most important is to decide whether you want to write literary fiction, stuff you can't give away, hell, Bruce can't even sell it, or do you want to write something more popular.
~ John Grisham
My favorite kind of science fiction is post-apocalyptic dystopia. But I just heard at the bar that genre is going out of style. Frankly, that's not a future I want to live in.
~ John Hodgman
The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork.
~ William F. Nolan
I think when you're on TV, once you become associated with one genre or the other, it's near impossible to break into the other one, even if you have experience with both.
~ Natalie Zea
I think, especially when you're on TV, once you become associated with one genre or the other, it's near impossible to break into the other one, even if you have experience with both.
~ Natalie Zea
So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.
~ Lady Gaga
Visibility makes possible, but it also disciplines: disciplines gender, disciplines genre.)
~ Maggie Nelson
Looking back, it's funny how the lighter family-friendly version of these classic Universal movie monsters that were satirized in The Munsters seduced me like a gateway drug into the genre.
~ Bryan Fuller
The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.
~ Shawn Ashmore
I don't like sci-fi/fantasy.
~ Ben Feldman
To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.
~ Sheri S. Tepper
Ive never seen myself as a fantasy writer-ever.
~ Jonathan Carroll
Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.
~ R. A. Salvatore