Quotes and Sayings About Genre
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As a music supervisor, you learn to embrace the best of every genre, and I really have to say there's nothing that I'm embarrassed of.
-- Alexandra Patsavas -
There cannot exist in the future an economy which is still mercantile but which isn't capitalist anymore. Before capitalism there were economies which were partially mercantile, but capitalism is the last of this genre.
-- Amadeo Bordiga -
My focus is to not focus too much on one genre.
-- Amanda Seyfried -
Genre, to me, is not all that important, and it never has been.
-- Amos Lee -
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I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.
-- Amy Tan -
The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.
-- Andre BazinSource : André Bazin (2005). “What is Cinema?”, p.140, Univ of California Press
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Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres
-- Avicii -
I'm not loyal to one genre. I want to mix it up.
-- Benedict Cumberbatch -
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Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.
-- Billy Corgan -
There's not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
-- Billy Gibbons -
When I was a kid, I was always watching genre movies on TV.
-- Bong Joon-hoSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.
-- Brian K. Vaughan -
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Know your genre. Know your history. Read a book.
-- Brian Keene -
After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.
-- Bruce Willis -
Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.
-- Carlos FuentesSource : "The Graywolf Annual Five: Multi-Cultural Literacy" edited by Rick Simonson and Scott Walker, St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 1988.
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To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.
-- Chester Bennington -
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Im a huge fan of the James Bond genre.
-- Chris Diamantopoulos -
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.
-- Christopher NolanSource : Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2002.
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This is not an international thriller so much as a fiercely literate attempt to subvert the thriller genre itself.
-- Christopher RiceSource : "Killer Company" by Christopher Rice, www.nytimes.com. October 24, 2014.
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Whatever your favorite genre is, you can probably trace your love for it back to one single book that really moved you.
-- David Farland -
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I never excluded any genre on my first record.
-- Deana Carter -
Getting back into the action genre is like going back home. It's great.
-- Dwayne Johnson -
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The philosophy has always been pretty clean and straightforward which is if I see something that I like and I can see its value to the audience, its value to me, then I'm going to take my shot at it, regardless of the genre.
-- Dwayne Johnson -
The goal [of mine] was always to work in as many different genres as I possibly could.
-- Dwayne Johnson -
I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.
-- Edward Norton -
It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre.
-- Eli Roth -
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I'm not staying away from any genre. I'm trying to get scripts that I like.
-- Emile Hirsch -
A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contrived images that usually stem from this genre.
-- Eve ArnoldSource : Eve Arnold (1987). “Marilyn Monroe--an appreciation”, Alfred A. Knopf