Genre Is Quotes - Page 2

• The thing I like about the sci-fi genre is that you get to examine universal themes and polarizing moral choices. The characters have a lot on their shoulders and are often trying to survive in some very difficult and hostile environments.

  Jaime Murray

  Character, Choices, Trying

  "Jaime Murray: Taking Care of Heart, Mind, and Body". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Getting into creating in a new genre is like arriving to a new country.

  Yoko Ono

  Country, Creating, Arriving

  "Yoko Ono @80". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, February 26, 2013.

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• I get emails from students at programs all over the country who want to transfer to Iowa, and in most cases their frustrations have absolutely nothing to do with the programs they're attending. They have to do with the growing pains that they're undergoing as writers and with the growing pains that our own genre is constantly undergoing.

  John D'Agata

  Country, Pain, Frustration

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I describe me sound as international: reggae, pop, rap, R&B all in one. I think I have my own style. I can't really even describe it. People say, "What type of genre is your music?" It's Sean Kingston genre. I have my own genre. No disrespect to no artist or dudes out there. I feel like I am my own person. I am doing my own thing.

  Sean Kingston

  Rap, Artist, Thinking

  "Sean Kingston Talks About His Hot Song". Interview with Alicia Quarles, www.washingtonpost.com. August 1, 2007.

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• There are no requirements when you're using a particular genre. It's not like the genre is your boss and you have to do what it says. You can make use of the genre any way you want to, as long as you can make it work.

  Charlie Jane Anders

  Long, Boss, Use

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing a song; hopefully you are doing it to explore something, to create something, and I don't agree that any of my albums are genre exercises.

  Elvis Costello

  Song, Writing, Mean

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• The horror genre is an extremely delicate thing. You can talk to filmmakers and even psychologists who've studied the genre, and even they don't understand what works or what doesn't work. More importantly, they don't understand why it works when it works.

  Stephen King

  Delicate Things, Horror Genre, Psychologist

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• I'll always have a totally open mind to endless possibilities. I want to do a dance album. Not Techno, but a record that's exclusively designed for people to dance to. That whole dance genre is kinda into its own world. I'd just like to get in there and mess around with that.

  Rob Halford

  People, Mind, Albums

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• When I did TV shows and my other movies, I never try to do it for anybody. I just do what I think is good no matter what the genre is.

  Will Gluck

  Thinking, Tv Shows, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• If a show is good, it helps people learn about themselves, in some way and in some function. Whatever the genre is, if it's executed well, audiences grow and learn from it, and that's where their passion and enthusiasm comes from.

  Matthew Davis

  Passion, People, Enthusiasm

  Source: collider.com

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• There's a level where the themes of a film are very relevant to me and also the idea of finding out how relevant one genre is to another. I think that westerns and samurai films and superhero films have a lot in common. It's just that the scale of the visuals in tentpole films can sometimes overwhelm the drama.

  James Mangold

  Drama, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; its a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. Its all right there in front of us.

  Phil Anselmo

  Two, Lessons, Limits

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Literature, Demand, Becoming

  Stanislaw Lem (2012). “Microworlds”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One of the reasons I write in different genres is that I get to have the feeling - even fleetingly - that I'm not just writing like Baggott again. I can escape myself.

  Julianna Baggott

  Writing, Feelings, Different

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• The space genre is timeless.

  Dirk Benedict

  Space, Timeless, Genre

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• The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.

  Mae Whitman

  Meaningful, Age, Stories

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

  Rick Moody

  Literary Genre, Bookstores, Problem

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• The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.

  Keith Carradine

  Genre, Familiar, Western

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• When you're doing a comedy and you want to somehow satirise people who are taking themselves seriously, I think the most serious genre is the thing you're going to get the most out of. If you're trying to satirise a comedy, it's hard to do that - it doesn't really work as well. But I love the war movie genre and I'm a fan of all those movies that are part of what this movie is.

  Ben Stiller

  War, Thinking, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why the genre is so open to experimentation and innovation that other genres reject--strangeness is our bread and butter. Spread it thick or slice it thin, it's still our staff of life.

  Orson Scott Card

  Challenges, Innovation, Fantasy Stories

  Orson Scott Card, Terry Brooks (2010). “The Writer's Digest Guide to Science Fiction & Fantasy”, p.21, Writer's Digest Books

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• Getting back into the action genre is like going back home. It's great.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Home, Action, Back Home

  "Dwayne Johnson On Set Interview FASTER". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 1, 2010.

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• The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you just go out and try to make one by putting on boots and jumping on a horse and riding off... If you don't have the material, the characters and the things to overcome and conflicts that give life to drama, you don't have it.

  Clint Eastwood

  Horse, Drama, Book

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. Ocober 6, 2003.

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• My feeling about fiction, regardless of the genre, is that it is meant to be a representation of life. I want my books to give a whole spectrum of experiences to my readers. Not just fear or terror or revulsion, but excitement, laughter, pain, sorrow, desire, etc.

  Richard Laymon

  Laughter, Pain, Book

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• Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe a genre is for satirizing, unless you know how to do it, there are no guarantees.

  James Berardinelli

  Mediocrity, Guarantees, Matter

  "Robin Hood: Men in Tights (United States, 1993)". Movie review, www.reelviews.net.

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• No, the horror genre is not my first love. I don't run to the theater to see horror films.

  Amanda Righetti

  Running, First Love, Horror Genre

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