Genre Quotes - Page 31

• Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.

  George R. R. Martin

  Kids, Television, Fantasy

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James won, and it split literature into two streams. But it's a totally false dichotomy.

  George R. R. Martin

  Stupid, Two, Feuds

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer who's determined to break down genre barriers. He's done amazing things.

  George R. R. Martin

  Prejudice, Done, Unions

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love country music. I don't ever feel restricted by the genre.

  Martina McBride

  Country, Country Love, Feels

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• I just love where I am right now in my career. I love country music. I don't ever feel restricted by the genre. I've been able to have a solid career that we've built one step at a time and a family. I know that I'm in a good place.

  Martina McBride

  Country, Careers, Able

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• The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Holocaust, These Days

  "The happy trails of Viggo Mortensen". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2009.

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• Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer.

  Jason Mraz

  Interesting, Effort, Challenges

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• One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.

  Rachel Nichols

  Genre Is, Talking, Hot

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• 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.

  Christopher Nolan

  Firsts, Term, Cease

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2002.

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

  Edward Norton

  Scripts, Knockoffs, Familiar

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• Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

  Miguel

  Other Cultures, Black, Genres Of Music

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• Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

  Camille Paglia

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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• Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre.

  John Podhoretz

  Movie, Dark, Keys

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• It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stars, Clever, Real

  "Sir Terry Pratchett: hallucinating gently for a living". Interview with Corinne Podger, www.abc.net.au. April 30, 2011.

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• I try to be eclectic in my choice of films. If I've done anything that's intentional in my career, it's to try to do as many different types of characters and as many different types of genres of movies that I can.

  Dennis Quaid

  Character, Careers, Choices

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• You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

  Keanu Reeves

  Character, Careers, Play

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• I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the viewer, move people, make you laugh, perhaps push an idea about being open-minded but never settle on a genre or an opinion. I hate genre. I like movies that are original in their approach.

  Jason Reitman

  Hate, Drama, Moving

  Interview with Radheyan Simonpillai, www.askmen.com.

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• Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get down with a bit of hip hop.

  Nicole Richie

  Country, Hip Hop, Hips

  "Nicole Richie Grows Up". "Interview Magazine" Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 3, 2010.

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• Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.

  Julia Roberts

  Funny, Birthday, Fall

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• Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Philosophy, Book, Eye

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• I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That's why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can't figure that out.

  Kid Rock

  Country, Song, Night

  “Kid Rock: What I've Learned” by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. April 20, 2011.

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• Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Reading, Writing, Mean

  "Exploring the Edge of the Fantasy Map: PW Talks with Patrick Rothfuss". Interview with Paul Goat Allen, www.publishersweekly.com. January 31, 2011.

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• I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.

  Martin Scorsese

  Italian, Numbers, Pieces

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• When 'American Pie' happened, I was so lucky to get that opportunity and I just tried to do a good job in that genre. But the films that inspired me as a kid were, like, Malcolm McDowall in 'A Clockwork Orange.' He was my hero.

  Sean William Scott

  Jobs, Hero, Kids

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• My focus is to not focus too much on one genre.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Focus, Too Much, Amanda

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