Genre Is Quotes - Page 2

• I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a ghostwriter has been to elevate that form. Maybe that sounds pretentious!

  Hilary Liftin

  Thinking, Sound, Pretentious

  "'Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily'". Interview with Kathryn Borel, Jr., logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.

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

  Keith Carradine

  Genre, Familiar, Western

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

  Rick Moody

  Literary Genre, Bookstores, Problem

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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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• 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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• 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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• The American independent cinema is as formulaic as Hollywood and one genre is what you might call the 'inaction movie'. The setting is invariably a decaying town in a regional backwater where a catalytic stranger or returning native meets up with a group of sad, eccentric outsiders.

  Philip French

  Independent, Cinema, Might

  "Nothing happens, but..." by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2004.

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• Being gone for so long and coming back into the game, I'm the type of person to reinvent myself pretty often and I can adapt to pretty much whatever genre is popping at the moment.

  Tony Sunshine

  Games, Long, Gone

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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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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• 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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• One of the problems of this genre is that there are cliches everywhere, and you've got to be careful and watch out. Our rule with cliches is to either gently acknowledge them and make fun of them, or do something else. Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.

  Adrian Hodges

  Fun, Doe, Watches

  Source: collider.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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• I could not flourish in the Hollywood system because the first thing spoken about is "What genre is it?" and "Who's it for?" It's a very strange question to me; it's for human beings.

  Conor McPherson

  Hollywood, Firsts, Strange

  "Interview: Conor McPherson and Ciarán Hinds of ‘The Eclipse’". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.com. March 25, 2010.

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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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• The horror genre is fun but I'm not sure it is quite right for me.

  Andre Holland

  Fun, Horror Genre, Not Sure

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• There's always gonna be criticisms, no matter what movie you do, no matter what. You can't please everybody, and it doesn't matter what the genre is. There's always gonna be a positive to a negative comment.

  Sam Worthington

  Criticism, Negative, Matter

  Source: wwd.com

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• The space genre is timeless.

  Dirk Benedict

  Space, Timeless, Genre

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• [Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up - of taking off the class associations with those labels, because we grew up, or I certainly grew up, feeling that, "Oh, there's literary fiction, and beneath that, there's these other things." He's actually saying that they're all of equal merit, and in many cases, that work in the genres, or work that draws from the genres is more entertaining for readers, since it is our job to entertain people.

  Emily Barton

  Jobs, Thinking, Opening Up

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a social commentator - like the great Victorians, a realist in his way. But he isn't at all like that. His genre is actually more like a fairy tale - weird transformations, long voyages from which people come back altered, parental mysteries, semi-magical twists.

  Martin Amis

  Long, People, Misunderstood

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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