Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.
I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.
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.
Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.
'Drown' was always a hybrid book. It's connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the reader to decide which genre they thought the book belonged to more - story, novel, neither, both.
I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.
I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with cinema.
As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!
One of the wonderful things about making a film of any genre is that you have dialogue. You can take up a position. If you want to say something about your position, you can just say it. You don't have to spend massive amounts of screen time.
I don't like to label films with a genre.
I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.
I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.
Rock'n'roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.
I think women have always been considered objects, especially in the genre of westerns.
The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.
As an actor, I am meant to dabble with different themes and genres.
The prose of Joe Pulver can take its place with that of the masters of our genre – E.A. Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Ligotti – while his imaginative reach is something uniquely his own.
I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.
If you look at the horror genre, that work is all about making people uncomfortable by stimulating our fear of death.
But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.
As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.
I am singing a genre of music that people are very protective of. I am being compared to the greatest vocalist of all time.
I've never really been into the sci-fi genre myself.
I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and established ones, read people whose work is in the same vein as yours and those whose genre is totally different. You've heard of chain-smokers. Writers, especially beginners, need to be chain-readers. And lastly, write every day. Write about things that get under your skin and keep you up at night.
