Genre Quotes - Page 40

• I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether it's science fiction, horror or really anything. I'm just drawn to quality. I don't think 'Darkness Falls' is horror; there isn't any gore by any stretch of the imagination.

  Emma Caulfield

  Fall, Thinking, Imagination

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• Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Country, Artist, People

  "Joy Behar Show", www.cnn.com. September 16, 2011.

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• The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.

  Stewart Copeland

  Jobs, Vision, Opera

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• I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.

  Emma Donoghue

  Thinking, Would Be, Way

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• In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.

  Garret Dillahunt

  Past, Stories, Television

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Down the road a bit, I would like to write a couple of stand-alone adult novels, especially in the horror genre. I've got lots of things up my sleeve.

  James Dashner

  Couple, Writing, Horror Genre

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• I have done all of the genres, and the dramatic role is my favorite.

  Jeff Daniels

  Roles, Done, Dramatic

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• Repetitiveness is one of the things that's most difficult to get away from in genre pictures, because people come specifically to see certain kinds of things but get disappointed if they're presented in the same way. So to try to find a new way to show old stuff is always the challenge.

  Joe Dante

  People, Challenges, Trying

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• The visceral experience of seeing a movie in three dimensions, coming at you in the theater, is obviously here to stay, because it is a unique experience. I think that kind of format is only appropriate for some genres, but I'm all for it.

  Cary Elwes

  Unique, Thinking, Three

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• I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic depends on how far back your memory extends.

  Charles Frazier

  Memories, Writing, Labels

  "Week three: Charles Frazier on writing Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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• I really feel that the thing that I love the most about my career is that it is so eclectic. You know, I've gone from so many genres and so many different mediums and I love that most - that people have always given me the chance to do vastly different things.

  Katie Finneran

  Careers, People, Different

  "Exclusive InDepth InterView: Katie Finneran Talks I HATE MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER, COMPANY, Sondheim, PROMISES & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. December 1, 2011.

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• I have really diverse tastes, which can be problematic sometimes, but it's good because it means I'm always listening to as much music as possible. I love listening to music, whatever genre it is.

  Richard Fleeshman

  Mean, Listening, Taste

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• My dream artists to collaborate with are probably Cee Lo Green and Imogen Heap. They're completely out of my genre but they're both musical geniuses.

  Kina Grannis

  Dream, Artist, Musical Genius

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• For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I've been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you can't write past that.

  Jacqueline Emerson

  Writing, Past, Thinking

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• I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest.

  Jennifer Egan

  Book, Squad, Usual

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• Write from the heart, what has meaning to you personally; have the patience and discipline to sit down and do it every day whether you're feeling inspired or not; never be afraid to take chances, in fact, make sure you take chances. As soon as you become complacent, you become boring ... . Read as much as possible, not simply in the genre, or what you think you're interested in, but other things as well.

  Charles de Lint

  Heart, Writing, Thinking

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• I wasn't a big science fiction aficionado, there were a few films like 2001 or Blade Runner that were favorites of mine, but since I started this series I have gained more respect for the genre and become more of a fan myself.

  Joe Flanigan

  Blade Runner, Fans, Fiction

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• In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Drama, Criticism, Narrative

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• 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.

  Ethan Hawke

  Messages, Entertainment, Horror

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• I think I'm sort of blind to genre. As long as it has a sort of honesty about it, which I think you'll hear in whatever music you respond to, then I think it doesn't need to be called anything particularly.

  Lianne La Havas

  Honesty, Thinking, Long

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• Music is everything to me. I wake up and go to bed with it. I listen to all genres, depending on my mood.

  Chanel Iman

  Bed, Wake Up, Mood

  "Exclusive: Chanel Iman Behind-the-Scenes for Skullcandy". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. August 28, 2012.

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• I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Horror Genre, Style, Monsters

  "Bong Joon-ho Exclusive Interview - TOKYO!" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 18, 2009.

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• When I was a kid, I was always watching genre movies on TV.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Kids, Tvs

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• I have a complex feeling about genre. I love it, but I hate it at the same time. I have the urge to make audiences thrill with the excitement of a genre, but I also try to betray and destroy the expectations placed on that genre.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Hate, Expectations, Feelings

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• My favourite genre lies inside myself, and as I follow my favourite stories, characters and images, it sums up to a certain genre. So at times even I have to try to guess which genre a film will be after I've made it.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Lying, Character, Trying

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