Genre Quotes

I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.

They're all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That's why I was attracted to this genre anyways, because these characters are so large and cartoonish, they're like caricatures, I just felt that there had to be a film made about them.

The idea of doing a children's film is different, but quite honestly I like doing anything - any genre. I've only made one Western, which was 'Three Amigos,' but I would love to make a serious Western. I'm just wide open.

I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.

To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.

Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.

I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.

I came late to the genre of folk music.

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.

So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.

Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.

The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that's not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The ones I love are the genre pictures with some subversive message underlying it all.

I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema.

I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys.

There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.

I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre.

I'm not staying away from any genre. I'm trying to get scripts that I like.

The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

The space genre is timeless.

One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.

Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up.

The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.

I really like the old stuff that I cut my musical teeth on, and I loved it when the industry was just like that, without really a genre. Today, country radio's more aimed at a demographic than a genre. It just softens everything.