Genre Quotes - Page 21

• I think when something becomes a comfortable genre, it's against what street art stood for in the beginning - breaking out of genres and taking art out of galleries. Now street art is in the gallery, and it's all made up into a nice, packaged concept.

  M.I.A.

  Art, Nice, Thinking

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I am all about switching between genres and doing as much as possible.

  David Koechner

  Switching

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• As far as being territorial about one's own life, that's a mistake for ANY writer. All writers everywhere, in every genre, are drawing from their life and the lives of those around them for "material." Memoirs just make transparent and even amplify that activity.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Mistake, Drawing, Amplify

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Every once in a while a messy character who manifests a REAL body emerges, for instance, Lisbeth Salander - and certainly commercial genre fiction is full of examples of real bodied sexual encounters or violence encounters - but for the most part, and particularly if you are a woman or minority author, your characters' bodies have to fit a kind of norm inside a narrow set of narrative pre-ordained and sanctioned scripts.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Real, Character, Example

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I reject the concept that comic books in movies are a genre. I have been fighting that for many years, with the powers-that-be in Hollywood.

  Michael Uslan

  Book, Fighting, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you talk about genres - I don't care if you're talking about war, Westerns, science fiction, horror, fantasy, humor, romance - anything you can find, strolling the aisles of a Borders or a Barnes & Noble, I can bring you many comic books representing each genre.

  Michael Uslan

  War, Book, Talking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The cool thing about Watchmen is it has this really complicated question that it asks, which is: who polices the police or who governs the government? Who does God pray to? Those are pretty deep questions but also pretty fun questions. Kind of exciting. It tries to subvert the superhero genre by giving you these big questions, moral questions. Why do you think you're on a fun ride? Suddenly you're like how am I supposed to feel about that?

  Zack Snyder

  Fun, Thinking, Government

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past.

  William Finnegan

  Memories, Past, Ends

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding.

  Jon Weisman

  Fiction, Too Much, Truthful

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Poetry is a popular genre in Afghanistan. If you turned on the radio, there would be a poetry program that would be as popular as The Real Housewives.

  Eliza Griswold

  Real, Would Be, Radio

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• That's always been the process of our music, in a sense, keeping it simple, not being so heavy that you are beating people over the head, it's just weighted down and it's like, "oohhh I can't relate." People are able to relate because we talked about things that everyone has experienced, it doesn't matter your race or genre. Music was your mainstay. There was something in our element of music that connected.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Simple, Race, People

  Source: jessemuhammad.blogs.finalcall.com

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• I love action films. It's my favorite genre.

  Til Schweiger

  Action, Film, My Favorite

  "Til Schweiger on The Risks And Rewards Of Making Emotional Action-Drama 'The Guardians' (Exclusive)" by Scott Roxborough, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 22, 2012.

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• The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.

  Ben Wheatley

  Taste, Problem, Film

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• The more country that my music gets, the less it fits into the country world today. It's almost like there needs to be two genres, modern country and... country?

  Kacey Musgraves

  Country, Two, Today

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• Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.

  Mara Brock Akil

  Thinking, Race, People

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• There's something about the sci-fi genre that gets an audience interested in it, so maybe you can take some risks that you couldn't, if you were just doing a drama. It lets you maybe reach a little further and surprise people a little bit more because there's still that little safety base of working on that genre that everybody loves.

  Rian Johnson

  Drama, People, Safety

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't really have a structured path of wanting to say, "This is what I'll do next." I'm just going to read a bunch of scripts and see which one I love. There are so many things I would love to play, in all different genres.

  Selena Gomez

  Play, Different, Next

  "Selena Gomez Talks SPRING BREAKERS, Why She Signed on, What She Learned from the Experience, BEHAVING BADLY, GETAWAY, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 19, 2013.

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• I feel really lucky that, in my career, I've gotten a chance to explore a lot of different genres and kinds of films.

  Ali Larter

  Careers, Different, Lucky

  "Ali Larter Interview RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 3, 2010.

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

  Dwayne Johnson

  Home, Genre Is, Action

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

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• For me it's about the character, not as much about the genre of it [movie]. I'm excited that I get to work and play interesting characters and I'm not just the girl who gets to play the girlfriend or the wife. I get to play real women who have struggles and troubles and passions and that's always what I hope to do no matter what format that lies in.

  Ali Larter

  Girl, Lying, Real

  "Ali Larter On-Set Interview RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE – Read or Listen Here". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 20, 2010.

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• The goal [of mine] was always to work in as many different genres as I possibly could.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Goal, Different, Mines

  "Dwayne Johnson and Julie Andrews Interview TOOTH FAIRY". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 19, 2010.

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• Every time a new rock singer comes out they don't say, 'Are you the new John Lennon?' Every time a new rapper comes out, it's not, 'Are you the new Dre?' I am never sure why this sort of genre, the categorization is so strong. I have not earned the right to be called the young Sinatra, but give me time.

  Michael Buble

  Strong, Rapper, Rocks

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• I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre.

  Gemma Chan

  Horror, Enjoy, Rational

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• Whats fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.

  Steven Strait

  Fun, Character, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

  Andy Serkis

  Technology, Actors, Way

  "A Conversation with Andy Serkis". Interview with Tim Appelo, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 29, 2011.

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