Genre Quotes - Page 39

• I'm not coming from film school. I learned cinema in the cinema watching films, so you always have a curiosity. I say, 'Well, what if I make a film in this genre? What if I make this film like this?'

  Wong Kar-wai

  School, What If, Curiosity

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. October 10, 2008.

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• The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror genre that shows a growing appetite for watching torture, or at least a desire to explore it on film? And if so, why would that be? I can't pretend I know. I just know I don't like it.

  Mark Gatiss

  Men, Horror Genre, Desire

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• All in all, I think that out of all musical genres, the world of metal is the most escapist one. Metal is also music for people who think for themselves. I think metalheads are smart people who possess a healthy dose of self-irony and a good sense of humor, and that appeals to me. I felt a strong affinity with the scene from the first moment on.

  Tuomas Holopainen

  Music, Strong, Smart

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• Take the time you need to learn the craft. Then sit down and write. When you hand over your completed manuscript to a trusted reader, keep an open mind. Edit, edit, and edit again. After you have written a great query letter, go to AgentQuery.com. This site is an invaluable resource that lists agents in your genre. Submit, accept rejection as part of the process, and submit again. And, of course, never give up.

  Kathleen Grissom

  Giving Up, Writing, Hands

  Kathleen Grissom (2014). “The Kitchen House: A Novel”, p.376, Simon and Schuster

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• A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom

  W. G. Sebald

  Writing, Giving, Patterns

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• This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

  Jacob Lawrence

  Ghetto, Black, Sorrow

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• People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fascinated by these short genres. They seem to lie just where my heart is, somewhere between literature and philosophy.

  Gary Saul Morson

  Philosophy, Lying, Book

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• Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser and more intelligent than his readers.

  W. H. Auden

  Writing, Intelligent, Doe

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• For a writer, and particularly a writer of my genre, which is the fantastical, I think that it's to my advantage to feel remote from and disconnected from the world of deal making.

  Clive Barker

  Thinking, World, Advantage

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• Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.

  Kate Morton

  Book, Writing, Successful

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• Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. Certainly there are elements of reader expectation that play into various genres, and those are important, but it also becomes about packaging, placement, audience....In the end, I'm not a fan of labels. I think the best fiction blurs the boundaries between genres, stretches and breaks them.

  Kristin Hannah

  Writing, Thinking, Play

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• Well, as a short-story writer, I don't think there are any weaknesses to the genre itself. I guess I would say that the difficulty of the form is that one must create an entire world in five to 30 pages, as opposed to 300. There is very little room for fat - you must be economical. And you must begin as close to the end as you possibly can.

  ZZ Packer

  Writing, Thinking, Weakness

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• I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.

  Bryan Adams

  Musician, May, Pay

  "Bryan Adams on learning to deal with fame". Interview with Shirley Halperin, uk.reuters.com. March 22, 2011.

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• There's not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.

  Billy Gibbons

  Hard

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• Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.

  Chuck D

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Culture

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• I'm not loyal to one genre. I want to mix it up.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Loyal, Want

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• I am fortunate enough to have worked on, and continue to work on, evolutionary movies in all formats from just simple good story telling, which still matters most of all, to CG movies to tent-pole size 3D movies, and genre 3D movies like 'Piranha 3D.

  Mark Canton

  Simple, Stories, Matter

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• I love doing horror with comedy twists and I think it's a really fun genre.

  Katrina Bowden

  Fun, Thinking, Twists

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things.

  Alison Brie

  Character, Creating, Trying

  "Alison Brie Talks COMMUNITY Season 3 and MAD MEN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 13, 2012.

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

  Chester Bennington

  Successful, Being Successful, Unsuccessful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People try to read a lot into what 'digital' means. It's just another platform. There are very attractive things that happen if you invest in content - movies, TV production, acquired series, specialty genres, digital distribution of our magazines, sports rights.

  Jeffrey Bewkes

  Sports, Mean, Rights

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• I do always like to do things I haven't done before, so I'm always looking out for things in a different genre, or a different sort of character.

  Jim Broadbent

  Character, Different, Done

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 28, 2010.

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• I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

  Julianna Baggott

  Writing, Boundaries, Complementary

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• What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

  Robert Ballard

  Purpose, Royal, Classic

  "Titanic Wreck Still Fascinates, Even After 105 Years". Interview with Jim Clash, www.forbes.com. January 20, 2017.

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• We all know from growing up with TV that John Wells shows are usually very large ensembles with amazingly written characters. He tends to redefine the way stories are told in a specific genre, whether it's 'China Beach,' 'The West Wing,' or 'E.R.

  Michael Cudlitz

  Beach, Growing Up, Character

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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