Genre Quotes - Page 7

• After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Writing, Superhero, Leader

  "Ex Machina : An Interview With Brian K. Vaughan". Interview with Bryan Young, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2010.

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• Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre.

  Simone Elkeles

  Book, Writing, Romance

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• Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she gets older; she is going to be worried about her brother and sister; she will be making a living while bringing up kids.

  Denise Mina

  Brother, Kids, Female

  "Murder she wrote - and plenty of it: Denise Mina on her career". Interview with Peter Guttridge, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2007.

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• I dont have a favorite genre. I love to work and live vicariously through every character. Its all about trying to bring the character to life and get the story across in a way that resonates with the audience. Its always interesting and challenging in a gratifying and unique way.

  Catherine Mary Stewart

  Character, Unique, Interesting

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• I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, Im afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.

  Samantha Shannon

  Creating, World, Geek

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• Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop.

  John Clute

  Location, Titles, Bookstores

  "In defense of science fiction" by John Clute, www.cnn.com. May 26, 1999.

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• My favorite term for a new kind of performance is "security theater." In this genre, we watch as ritualized inspections and patdowns create the illusion of security. It's a form that has become common since 9/11, and even the government agencies that participate in this activity acknowledge,off the record, that it is indeed a species of theater.

  David Byrne

  Agency, Government, Watches

  David Byrne (2017). “How Music Works”, p.76, Three Rivers Press

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• I like taking genres and subverting them. I did that with In the Valley of Elah. I said, "Okay, this is just a murder mystery. Relax." And then, two thirds of the way through, I broke every convention of a murder mystery.

  Paul Haggis

  Two, Murder Mysteries, Relax

  "Director Paul Haggis Talks THIRD PERSON, Putting the Cast Together, How He’d Like to Do an Extended Version, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 20, 2014.

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• Literature is a form of language that breaks with the whole definition of genres as forms adapted to an order of representations, and becomes merely a manifestation of a language which has no other law than that of affirming in opposition to all other forms of discourse its own precipitous existence.

  Michel Foucault

  Art, Order, Law

  Michel Foucault (2005). “The Order of Things”, p.327, Routledge

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• I feel like R&B as a genre has become a caricature of itself.

  Miguel

  Caricatures, Feels

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• Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to sit at home in the suburbs and see what awful things go on in the cities.

  Tom Shales

  Home, Cities, Long

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• For me, Christianity is not a genre. It's faith. The Gospel is not a genre either. It's faith. I definitely understand the semantics of naming things to give them some kind of distinction but I think my faith is pretty distinct. If you want to call it hip hop, essentially it is. That's the art form.

  LeCrae

  Art, Thinking, Giving

  "A conversation with Christian hip hop artist Lecrae". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I want to say that I really appreciate that readers are willing to work with my tendency to write in several different genres and for different age groups.

  Melissa Marr

  Writing, Appreciate, Age

  "Interview: Melissa Marr, author of 'Made for You'". Interview with Joyce Lamb, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. September 17, 2014.

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• When people say, Your music was the music of the Seventies, I say, So was discoteque. The Seventies was also the highest peak of heavy metal. Pick a genre - they were all alive.

  Gerry Beckley

  People, Alive, Heavy Metal

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• I actually prefer to work in as many different genres as possible as often as possible because I actually think the best way to be inspired and avoid any writers block or things like that is actually to be able to go from a comedy to an action to a horror to a adventure, that actually makes it easy for me to start over and get new ideas, and it keeps things interesting.

  Christopher Lennertz

  Block, Adventure, Thinking

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• One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Different, Decay

  Introduction to "Die Propyläen" journal, 1798.

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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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• There's no denying that the way horror has been packaged in the past has done it no favours. Lurid black covers adorned with skulls, corpses crawling with insects and scantily clad maidens being chewed into by vampires -- all good clean fun, but it doesn't do much to give the genre an air of respectability or seriousness to the casual browser.

  Tim Lebbon

  Fun, Past, Air

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• While the romance genre has expanded so much over the years, in an odd way it's also narrowed, with too many people trying to stick stories into tight, well-defined marketing niches. It can, admittedly, be a tricky balancing act, but I believe the key is to be able to step back and take a long hard look at what you do well, what makes your work different from other writers, what feels the most natural to you when you're writing.

  JoAnn Ross

  Believe, Writing, Keys

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• Genre stuff is the most exciting stuff for an actor to play. I get to try new things, do things I would have never got the chance to do.

  Amy Acker

  Play, Trying, Stuff

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• I love all kinds of movies. I love a really good comedy and not the cheesy ones. My parents hate this, but I love horror films. Those are my favorite, and of course, dramatic roles. Im really drawn to those as well. All different genres.

  Liana Liberato

  Hate, Parent, Cheesy

  "Exclusive Interview With Liana Liberato On Trust". Interview with Billy Tatum, wegotthiscovered.com.

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• If I love the character, then thats all that matters to me. It doesnt really matter what genre it is.

  Olivia Cooke

  Character, Matter, Ifs

  "Olivia Cooke Talks BATES MOTEL, Season 1 Surprises, Emma’s Relationship Statuses, Love Interests, Scares, and Murders, Plus THE QUIET ONES and OUIJA". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 24, 2014.

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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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• A look of intelligence is what regularity of features is to women: it is a styule of beauty to which the most vain may aspire.
  [Fr., L'air spirituel est dans les hommes ce que la regularite des traits est dans les femmes: c'est le genre de beaute ou les plus vains puissent aspirer.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Beauty, Air, Looks

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