Genre Quotes - Page 2

I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.

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.

I never had a problem with genre because a genre actually is like a uniform - you put yourself into a certain uniform.

In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced in art than in life. If the horror genre required any justification, I should think this alone would serve as its credentials.

I'll always have a totally open mind to endless possibilities. I want to do a dance album. Not Techno, but a record that's exclusively designed for people to dance to. That whole dance genre is kinda into its own world. I'd just like to get in there and mess around with that.

There's no coherent stylistic genre specific advice that I could provide.

Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a social commentator - like the great Victorians, a realist in his way. But he isn't at all like that. His genre is actually more like a fairy tale - weird transformations, long voyages from which people come back altered, parental mysteries, semi-magical twists.

If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

I do not know what might be the most fitting description.... I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff: I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.

The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

Getting back into the action genre is like going back home. It's great.

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

Genres pop up and get hot and then they die down.

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

What I like about the 'Underworld' thing is that it's a mix of cool genres, as well as creating its own message.

It doesn't matter to me what the genre is.

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.

I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.

Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.

The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.

I love mixing up my genres.

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.

I'm a horror movie fan to begin with, so to come back to the genre, I feel like horror has been very good to me.

I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.