Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If something comes along that is totally outside of horror, fine, but I find there's an immense amount of freedom within the genre.
I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world.
With parody, you're referencing and sending up a particular genre, and mostly your material is going to be taken out of that genre.
We listen to so many different types of music, so it's easy for us to play a different genre or style and it be true to what we do.
After I had written more than a dozen adult genre novels, an editor I knew in New York asked me to write a mystery for young adults.
My uncle is from Trinidad, so, ever since I was 7, I grew up listening to Soca, the genre that's from there. It's my favorite sound.
I don't think I will write anything that could be even remotely considered a genre novel from this point on. I think I've graduated.
The horror genre is real cathartic. It allows us to bring out the things that scare us and get it out and have an emotional release.
A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.
Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning.
Each genre has something to teach me about the others. Not all the lessons are transferable, but many of the most important ones are.
Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.
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.
I hope people describe my music as lyrically driven, cross genre. Kind of alternative, kind of indie, kind of rap, kind of everything.
Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'
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.
I've never been a big horror genre fan, but I did go see 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in the theaters and I dug it. I thought it was cool.
I'm not really a zombie genre guy; I'm not particularly versed in it. Doing 'The Walking Dead' sort of turned me on to the whole thing.
Quality is subjective. There are quality blockbusters; there are quality versions of every genre and it doesn't necessarily mean money.
It certainly seems as though a great majority of genre is conflict-focused and, not only that, but focused on large physical conflicts.
Modernist fiction is tied to problems of writers. Self-glorifying. Existential struggle. This has not been a big part of genre writing.
When I am playing, I try to keep the genre very easy-going and breezy. I can't be into the book and not be into the profession I am in.
Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don't mind saying that, it's true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them.
Genre stuff is the most exciting stuff for an actor to play. I get to try new things, do things I would have never got the chance to do.
I like westerns, fantasy, sci-fi, graphic novels, thrillers, and I try to avoid the word 'genre' altogether. A good book is a good book.
What's fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.
Since childhood, I've been a fan of mysteries - 'Nancy Drew' lovers unite! - but 'Vertigo' struck me as an entirely new take on the genre.
'Never Die Alone' is primarily a riveting genre film that neatly exhibits the director's growing assurance - Donald Goines would be proud.
I think an old-school Western would kind of be really up my alley and would be so fun, I'm so comfortable in that genre and around horses.
Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.
A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.
I think the type of actor I am, I tend to play strong leading female characters. The shows I've been on happen to be science fiction genre.
My first gig in the business was a guest star on 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' so I'm neck deep in sci-fi. It's been a very good genre to me.
Hans Zimmer and I considered 'Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows' to be a steampunk genre; our inspiration came from Sherlock's own travels.
My life isn't just one genre. It's a romance one minute, an action movie the next - it's actually rarely, rarely an action film, to be frank.
I considered myself very lucky after 'Baghdad Cafe,' and I have 'The Shield.' In every genre, I've kicked butt at some point. I'm real happy.
I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.
Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.
It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
I think it's not only Babymetal's sound but also the fact that we dance to metal that represents a new way of expressing this genre of music.
I love New Orleans. I love jazz. I grew up practicing jazz piano, and that's just been such a cool genre to me. There's a lot of talent there.
I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre.
I really don't think of my work in terms of a genre. I think of it in terms of what I want to say, what I think is cool, and what I'm good at.
There's a thing with genre movies and science fiction movies that number two is the charmed; two seems to be the best. I loved 'Terminator 2.'
I don't look at myself as a Scream Queen, and I don't plan on continuing on this genre route. If anything, I want to go very different places.
By the time I was 10 or 12, I had discovered the lure of the romance genre - and the dusty copy of 'The Thorn Birds' on my parents' bookshelf.
I'm happy that grime remains underground. A lot of people talk like it's some underrated or ignored genre, but to me, that's the beauty of it.