Genre Quotes

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

I never set out to be part of a genre, because I listen to all types of music.

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

Animation is a technique, not a genre.

Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.

Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres.

I love dabbling in different genres, and I like being good at different genres of cinema.

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.

Vampires are a genre now.

All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.

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

I try not to discriminate against genres.

I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.

Readers want more of the same from you. So stick to one genre.

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

I never had a problem with genre because a genre actually is like a uniform - you put yourself into a certain uniform.

There's no coherent stylistic genre specific advice that I could provide.

The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

Genres pop up and get hot and then they die down.

It doesn't matter to me what the genre is.

What I like about the 'Underworld' thing is that it's a mix of cool genres, as well as creating its own message.

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.

Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.

I'm a horror movie fan to begin with, so to come back to the genre, I feel like horror has been very good to me.

I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.

'Drown' was always a hybrid book. It's connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the reader to decide which genre they thought the book belonged to more - story, novel, neither, both.

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

I love mixing up my genres.

The prose of Joe Pulver can take its place with that of the masters of our genre – E.A. Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Ligotti – while his imaginative reach is something uniquely his own.

I don't like to label films with a genre.

After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.

I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.

As an actor, I am meant to dabble with different themes and genres.

I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.

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

I think Ive learned more about Baroque music than any other genre.

There cannot exist in the future an economy which is still mercantile but which isn't capitalist anymore. Before capitalism there were economies which were partially mercantile, but capitalism is the last of this genre.

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

I'm developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything's possible.

I never excluded any genre on my first record.

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

I think women have always been considered objects, especially in the genre of westerns.

The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.

I think I'm sort of locked into the sitcom genre

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.