Genre Quotes - Page 22

• I do feel there's certainly some films where you can feel that the directors don't care about the genre and they don't care about their characters.

  Drew Goddard

  Character, Directors, Care

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Genre/forms are institutional questions mainly. Like matter to MFA programs in terms of which workshop you can teach.

  Juliana Spahr

  Matter, Program, Form

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I love outsider stories. And I also like a lot of genre fiction, too. So I wanted to write a literary book that flirted with thriller and fantasy and even science fiction. I wanted the coming-of-age story and the love story to be about "outsiderdom" - one of the themes I am most interested in.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Book, Writing, Age

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Eventually, I came to believe, stupidly, that I had exhausted that story's "original" form with its single use. I went on to other stories, other forms and genres.

  Norman Lock

  Believe, Stories, Use

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics.

  Kathleen Rooney

  Writing, Thinking, Important

  Source: therumpus.net

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• They [academy writing programs] have no concept that the world has changed, that publishing has changed, that filmmaking has changed, and if you're not constantly looking at your education model and adjusting for the change, you'll find yourself teaching antiquity. Like all of these programs that won't accept students who are writing genre fiction - what an institutional ego!

  Tod Goldberg

  Teaching, Writing, Ego

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The greatest thing about form and convention is that it saves you from having to reinvent the wheel. Now, whether you mount the wheel to a horse carriage or a Formula One racing car, make it plain or give it spinning rims, those are all craft decisions. But the fact of the wheel remains: it will turn if you set it down. That's what I mean about the beauty of the gifts genre can offer.

  Chris Abani

  Horse, Mean, Giving

  "The Rumpus Interview With Chris Abani". Interview with Peter Orner, therumpus.net. February 10, 2014.

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• It's hard to put my music in a specific genre, but if you had to, "instrumental cyber metal" would be an accurate one.

  Paul Wardingham

  Would Be, Cyber, Accurate

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• It's just cool to do something different and branch out and dabble in different genres.

  Lights

  Different, Branches, Different Genres

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• I would describe my style of songwriting as classic. I learned very early on and have stuck to the core principles of song structure regardless of which genre I'm writing in.

  Wendy Starland

  Song, Writing, Style

  "A Conversation with Wendy Starland". Interview with Jacob Elyachar, March 1, 2015.

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• My goal is to always contribute a part of myself to my music that will result in it sounding authentic, timeless, and real. I feel that this truly comes across in my new album, which is in the Rock genre.

  Wendy Starland

  Real, Rocks, Goal

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• I have been exposed to most musical genres and have learned how to tackle them effectively.

  Wendy Starland

  Musical, Exposed, Has Beens

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• A good song can be produced in several different genres.

  Wendy Starland

  Song, Different, Different Genres

  "A Conversation with Wendy Starland". Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• If you follow a trend, by the time it is released it will sound like the same regurgitated music that the public has been hearing for the past eight months (at least.) I am not referring to genres or production that is considered to be timeless or "classic" sounding.

  Wendy Starland

  Past, Eight, Months

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• People get bored of hearing the same genre of music over and over again. Observe the current musical landscape and predict what "mood" people will be in next. Ask yourself what would be the most natural transition or reaction to the current genre. Then create it!

  Wendy Starland

  Bored, People, Musical

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• I decided to make myself a little less precious with my storytelling. I think you can see from the first three pieces in the book that I have a long term relationship with the short story as a form and I really love an elegantly crafted story that has several elements that come together in a way that is emotionally complex and different from when we started. That kind of crystalline, perfect, idealized thing that the short story as a genre has come to represent.

  Lucy Corin

  Book, Thinking, Perfect

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock.

  Charlie Jane Anders

  Writing, Fiction Stories, Science Fiction

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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

  Genre Is, Long, Boss

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Storytelling is more like a skin. You start with the outermost layer, what it's going to look like, then you kind of get deeper into it. What's actually going on beneath the surface is not really dictated by or related to the surface genre. It's more about what's going to happen between the characters and what's taking place in the story.

  Charlie Jane Anders

  Character, Skins, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs and ecosystems that's happening beneath the surface.

  Charlie Jane Anders

  Ocean, Moving, Ecosystems

  Source: www.avclub.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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• As a late teenager, the punk movement pushed me further. In particular, the Clash, which happened to leak through the time of disco, showed me that there was this cross-cultural sound that could cut across genres and audiences. Like punk was to disco, rap music was a rebellion against R&B, which had adopted disco and made it worse.

  Chuck D

  Teenager, Rap, Cutting

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• Looking back, it's funny how the lighter family-friendly version of these classic Universal movie monsters that were satirized in The Munsters seduced me like a gateway drug into the genre.

  Bryan Fuller

  Drug, Friendly, Monsters

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I just watch a lot of different films and different TV shows. Really for me, it's just looking at how people react to different shows in different genres. For me, it's more a study of people than a study of acting.

  Sterling Beaumon

  Tv Shows, People, Acting

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• You move your life across the country and make a commitment to a place, and to a genre, and then you realize that neither the place nor the genre might be what you thought they were going to be, or that the world you thought you were going to find in school doesn't actually exist.

  John D'Agata

  Country, Moving, Commitment

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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