Genre Quotes - Page 9

• I've always thought that "punk" wasn't really a genre. My band started in Olympia where K Records was and K Records put out music that didn't sound super loud and aggressive. And yet they were punk because they were creating culture in their own community instead of taking their cue from MTV about what was real music and what was cool. It wasn't about a certain fashion. It was about your ideology, it was about creating a community and doing it on your own and not having to rely on, kinda, "The Man" to brand you and say that you were okay.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Fashion, Real, Men

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• That's how it always is with me: the thing that sets me down to start writing is usually not what I end up doing. Because, as much as I love genre, and I try to deliver the goods, I go off from it. I go do my own thing.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Trying, Ends

  "Quentin Tarantino Talks Inglourious Basterds - RT Interview". Interview with Henri Sordeau, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. August 11, 2009.

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• I grew up in the funk, rock and roll, blues and r&b tradition, and I came to this thing we call jazz later. And I came to improvise music from the standpoint of jazz; I was improvising, but within these other genres of music.

  Hamid Drake

  Rock And Roll, Rocks, Jazz

  Source: the-attic.net

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• If you look at the horror genre, that work is all about making people uncomfortable by stimulating our fear of death.

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Horror Genre, People, Looks

  "Go Forth (Vol. 36)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. August 25, 2015.

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• I never had a problem with genre because a genre actually is like a uniform - you put yourself into a certain uniform. But if you dress up in a police officer's uniform, it doesn't mean that you are an officer; it can mean something else. But this is the starting point, and the best way is to not to fit into this uniform but to make this uniform a part of yourself.

  Wong Kar-wai

  Mean, Police, Uniforms

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

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• I do think that once a horror genre is commonly parodied in other movies it sort kills that genre or that specific take on that genre. Once it sort of becomes a joke in and of itself, so you have to push and find something new.

  Roy Lee

  Thinking, Genre Is, Horror Genre

  "Producer Roy Lee Talks THE RING, POLTERGEIST, and THE GRUDGE Reboots, A Darker Ending for Spike Lee’s OLDBOY Remake, and More". Interview on the set, collider.com. November 28, 2011.

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• I'm not limited by genre and it doesn't really matter what the genre is as long as the film is going to be new and have some real artistic integrity.

  Josh Hartnett

  Integrity, Real, Genre Is

  "Interview: Josh Hartnett Talks 30 Days Of Night". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. November 1, 2007.

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• There are three huge, titanic, space movies which if you ever make a film [about space] you cannot avoid. You may want to avoid them but you cannot. I've never known a genre like it where you are dictated to by these films, 2001, Alien, and Tarkovsky's Solaris.

  Danny Boyle

  Space, Three, May

  "Danny Boyle Talks Sunshine, Space, And Sci-Fi". Interview with Sara Maria Vizcarrondo, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. July 19, 2007.

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• You always want to challenge yourself and work with people you respect. You can't always go by genres, but it's always fun to challenge yourself.

  Mila Kunis

  Fun, People, Challenges

  "We Drank Bourbon With Mila Kunis. Be Jealous". Interview with Robert Haynes-Peterson, www.askmen.com.

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• I published my first book in 1982 - a collection of Irish folklore called Irish Folk & Fairy Tales. It is still in print today. My first young adult book was published a couple of years later, and I've been writing in both genres ever since.

  Michael Scott

  Couple, Book, Writing

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• I've published over 100 books - and that is divided about 50/50 adult and young adult. Lately, I have been writing more YA, which is such a great genre to write it. I don't have a favourite (I usually say it's the last book I've written), but certain books do stick in the mind. My very first YA novel, The Children of Lir, will always be special to me, and, of course The Alchemyst because it was a series I'd wanted to write for ages.

  Michael Scott

  Children, Book, Writing

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• My advice is to write about what you are interested in. If you read science fiction and fantasy, then write in that genre. If you read romance novels, then try writing one.

  Michael Scott

  Writing, Romance, Advice

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• I think that with the Internet, it has given a lot of people the opportunity to get themselves out there to the masses. But it's easy to group everyone that's on the Internet together. I try to cross and jump around between genres and different styles, kind of find my own niche.

  Mac Miller

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I wrote, I think, half a dozen films that were completely out of genre. Comedies, love stories, even one serious film about Vietnam, and we couldn't get backing for any of it. And we both sort of drifted from making, at that time, serious money on Last House to going through it all in the course of almost three years and only getting offers to do something scary again.

  Wes Craven

  Thinking, Years, Scary

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• I realized that I really, almost by accident, had fallen into a labyrinthine, very powerful paradigm for dealing with these things through genre films. And once I realized that and realized the power of it, and the fact that because horror films aren't, in general, studio products - studios back them sometimes, but they don't try to meddle too much, because they kind of don't want to sully their skirts - you have a lot of freedom.

  Wes Craven

  Powerful, Trying, Want

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures.

  Wes Craven

  World, Horror, Term

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures. I have had a few chances to get outside and do something different, like Paris, Je T'Aime or Music Of The Heart, but mostly it's been my lot. And to have created, with a few shocking films, an awareness or a perception of me as somebody dangerous and scary - that can be sold, but trying to sell me for some other kind of picture, like Music Of The Heart, was very difficult.

  Wes Craven

  Heart, Paris, Scary

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• I think my sound differentiates me from everyone else. I'm able to dip and dabble in other genres, without feeling out of place. Im not confined to one sound.

  Iceberg Slim

  Thinking, Feelings, Sound

  Meraki Mag Interview, www.merakiafrica.com. January 27, 2014.

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• I'm open to doing any kind of role and any kind of genre as long as it's interesting and as long as I feel it could be a great character to play. I never take into my own personal opinions or my own public image into account when I chose movie roles.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Character, Personal Opinions, Play

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• In some ways it's hard to see electronic music as a genre because the word "electronic" just refers to how it's made. Hip-hop is electronic music. Most reggae is electronic. Pop is electronic. House music, techno, all these sorts of ostensibly disparate genres are sort of being created with the same equipment.

  Moby

  House, Hip Hop, Way

  "Exclusive Premiere of Moby’s New Video, 'The Last Day'". Interview with Jaeah Lee, www.motherjones.com. September 2, 2014.

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• Fantasy is a genre that allows me to create anything I want. That, in turn, allows me to explore any sort of idea I'm curious about. I love it because Fantasy is a genre that asks, "What if...?" That's my favorite question.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Ideas, What If, Want

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• I've read fantasy my whole life. Quite literally; my mom read me The Hobbit before I could read stuff to myself. So I love fantasy; that's what I read for fun, it's what I read professionally to keep abreast of what's in the genre - it's where my heart is.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Mom, Fun, Heart

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• Every time you read something about Rolling Stones it always mentions their age and how long can they go on? I think there are certain genres of music where people are allowed to go on, but there is something about rock and roll, I guess because it originally started out to be a teenage rebellion.

  Kate Pierson

  Teenage, Thinking, Rocks

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• I am completely open to doing a romantic comedy, but I will never do something just for the sake of doing a specific genre or because it's the time or place to do a different type of movie. I think that would be a huge mistake.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Mistake, Thinking, Different

  "Leonardo Dicaprio: 'I Am A Lot Calmer Now'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. November 9, 2011.

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• There are shows, a lot of small cable shows like Breaking Bad, where in the general population nobody watches them really, but everybody in Los Angeles in the industry watches them, and to get a small role on a show like that actually, in some respects, advances your career more than having a huge hit role on a genre show because they are somehow dismissed as a secondary market in this industry

  Misha Collins

  Careers, Population, Watches

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