Genre Quotes - Page 13

• I don't have a problem with many uses of the word genre, just certain ones. I have the most trouble when these labels are used to prevent discussion, to prevent a work from being taken seriously as literature. When we say "genre," we generally mean "something crappy," something that would be sold in an airport.

  Michael Chabon

  Taken, Mean, Airports

  Interview with Elizabeth Benefiel, www.avclub.com. July 5, 2007.

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• I hate to see great works of literature ghettoized, whereas others that conform to the rules, conventions, and procedures of the genre we call literary fiction get accorded greater esteem and privilege. I also have a problem with how books are marketed, with certain cover designs and typefaces. They're often stamped with an identity that has nothing to do with their effect on the reader.

  Michael Chabon

  Hate, Book, Design

  Interview with Elizabeth Benefiel, www.avclub.com. July 5, 2007.

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• There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are so many prizes.

  Emma Donoghue

  Men, Fiction, May

  "Room" Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her "Deeply Feminist" Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

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• I'm very keen. Adaptations of other people's work, too. I got fascinated by the adaptation process, so I think that'd be a really interesting task. I would happily write original screenplays as well. I think it's become one of my favorite genres.

  Emma Donoghue

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "Room" Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her "Deeply Feminist" Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

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• I don't belong to any school or clique or ghetto. I don't have any preconceived ideas. I'm trying to serve a story and not a genre or a style.

  Xavier Dolan

  School, Ghetto, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet?

  Charles Stross

  War, Believe, Writing

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• While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.

  Charles Stross

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• I want to tell stories, I don't really try to get boxed in by a specific genre.

  Spike Lee

  Trying, Stories, Want

  "Interview: Unpacking ‘Da Sweet Blood of Jesus’ w/ Spike Lee + the Film’s Lead Actors (Opens Friday)". Interview with Zeba Blay, blogs.indiewire.com. February 11, 2015.

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• Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry. However none of the 'New wave' of directors in Nigeria would know what was possible without the Nollywood model, so I'm grateful to them for showing us that our stories are of interest to people other than Nigerians. I would describe myself as a filmmaker, period.

  Chika Anadu

  Grateful, People, Directors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I believe in Mexico there's a big culture of moviegoing, both studio and indie. I think here in the US that's not the case because Latino communities don't have access to indie films. If you go into communities of color you will only find the big theater chains which only play the blockbuster genre films.

  Aurora Guerrero

  Believe, Thinking, Color

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It doesn't matter to me whether I go back to outer space or not [while acting]. The job's the same and I don't have any sort of genre preferences. I'm looking for a good story and a good character, whether earthbound or not.

  Harrison Ford

  Jobs, Character, Space

  "Press Conference Interview With Harrison Ford On Ender’s Game". Interview with Ben Kenber, wegotthiscovered.com. October 29, 2013.

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• I don't tend to say it's time for one of this or that genre. Things flow to you in a strange way, and why you bump into a certain kind of thing in one moment is...it's hard to explain.

  Edward Norton

  Bumps, Way, Flow

  "Interview: 'Leaves of Grass' Star Edward Norton and Director Tim Blake Nelson". Interview with Landon Palmer, filmschoolrejects.com. March 28, 2010.

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• I never even considered comedy genre as something to embrace or move away from.

  Edward Norton

  Moving, Comedy, Embrace

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• I feel like people, when it comes to music, whatever genre, they relate to the story more than just the song.

  Chamillionaire

  Song, People, Stories

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm not so arrogant to consider mine the only legitimate art form. I can't in one breath make a fuss about someone compartmentalizing music into genre and then in the next accuse advertising and short film of not being art.

  Brandi Carlile

  Art, Arrogant, Next

  "Interrogating Brandi Carlile: I Knew ‘That Wasn’t Me’ Was Our ‘Let It Be‘". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

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• There's a thing I really mind hearing, when someone says: "That's not my kind of film, I don't want to go and see that..." I don't believe that, I don't believe that it's possible to write off a whole genre of filmmaking - "oh I don't like subtitled films", or "I don't like black and white films", or I don't like films made before or after, a certain date" - I don't believe that.

  Tilda Swinton

  Believe, Writing, Black And White

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Honestly, I think it's dumb luck that I'm able to kind of get away doing different types of films in different genres. There's always a tendency to kind of stick with what works, or stick with one particular kind of brand or movie. But so far I've been getting away with it, so I'm going to continue to do that for as long as I can.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Thinking, Long, Dumb

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Genre Is, Used, Concepts

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• People are very adamant about maintaining a certain sound or a certain era, like, "There were three years of rap that were great, so let's just keep doing that." The genre itself is just stuck in place. It's been treading water for a while.

  Aesop Rock

  Rap, Years, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Everyone's been on the "hip-hop is dead" campaign for years, and now it's the most unsure-of-itself genre ever.

  Aesop Rock

  Years, Hip Hop, Campaigns

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To seek out making films that are unique and insightful, boundary-pushing and genre-bending, and not films that fit into the neat, little boxes that people "want" (expect) women to be making. In some ways, I guess for me, any filmmaker should strive to be a good director first, regardless of their gender, race, sexual orientation etc.

  Rania Attieh

  Unique, Race, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I challenged myself to write/direct a romantic comedy. People trash talk the rom com, but it's one of the oldest cinematic genres, with stellar origins like Twentieth Century and Trouble in Paradise. I think as audiences lost their innocence, the genre lost its suspense. To create suspense, you need obstacles, so I gave my couple an obstacle that very few people ever overcome: their own behavior and their past.

  Leslye Headland

  Couple, Writing, Past

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I really like films and plays that cross over different genres. So I'd like to do something that you think is a drama and then you think is a supernatural thing and then becomes a drama again. That's very vague.

  Romola Garai

  Drama, Thinking, Play

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• As a screenwriter I'm often writing in genres where there have been thousands of movies; whereas when I direct movies they tend to be in between genres. They tend to have a little bit of a genre to them, but they're really about the people, and they're people we haven't met before.

  John Sayles

  Writing, People, Littles

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm a storyteller, and there's some genres I like. I don't think I'm ever going to do science fiction, but I want to do a musical one day. I want to tell stories, I don't really try to get boxed in by a specific genre.

  Spike Lee

  Thinking, Musical, Trying

  "Interview: Investigating ‘Da Sweet Blood of Jesus’ w/ Spike Lee + Lead Actors Zaraah Abrahams and Stephen Tyrone Williams". Interview with Zeba Blay, February 11, 2015.

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