Top 1200 Genre Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on November 5, 2024.
Most of the female characters I admire come from science fiction and fantasy, maybe because there's more permission to shake up gender roles in genre.
I actually started out as a writer and then converted to illustration because I realised that there was a dearth of good illustrators in genre fiction, at least in Australia at that time.
From a genre perspective and a character perspective, you know, sky's the limit.
Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice.
'Click' is a horror film and a first for me. People think I always had a face good enough to do films of this genre. So now I'd take that as a compliment.
I do think you learn things about genre storytelling, but you also have to be careful not to learn too much.
When you strip away the genre differences and the technological complexities, all games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and voluntary participation.
I will literally read anything, regardless of genre, fiction or non-fiction, as long as it's well written.
Whatever your favorite genre is, you can probably trace your love for it back to one single book that really moved you.
I would describe my style of songwriting as classic. I learned very early on and have stuck to the core principles of song structure regardless of which genre I'm writing in.
To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the genre and kicks it between its legs, it's this fascinating deconstruction of the myth of the West.
I don't have a genre because I play lots of different music that people would say are different genres.
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.
What I did with Slash and the Conspirators was a very different kind of music. Genre-wise, it is a step in a different direction.
So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.
It seems like the Western genre has crept out of its casings during the last few years, and expanded to include books and movies we wouldn't originally have thought of as westerns.
I wanted to stay on a career path of the likes of Natalie Portman. I didn't want to be pigeonholed into a certain genre. I sort of believe that slow and steady wins the race.
Maybe I exclude myself from that genre by not getting dressed up often enough, by acting ghetto most of the time, and running around in sweats and Timberlands.
Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.
There's only one type of music and that's good music, no matter what genre it is.
It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's 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.
We are aiming to create a one and only new music genre that exceeds the limits of pop and metal music.
What I like is not a particular genre, it's storytelling. There's a lot of great storytelling in jazz, and in folk and in country music.
I think people associate genre and music style with creativity, but it's all creativity regardless of what pipeline it comes down.
I love being an actor, and that's really the bottom line - in any medium, in any genre - and I want to do it.
Science fiction is not a genre that has much respect in China. Critics have long been discouraged from paying attention to the category, dismissed as a branch of juvenile literature.
Something like 'Alien,' that was not so easy. If there's any genre I wouldn't mind not having to do anymore, it would be science fiction. It's just all to do with the toys, and there's so much hanging around.
Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up.
A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing.
Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look.
Blogging has helped create an expanded awareness of the creative nonfiction genre, generally. But I suspect many bloggers continue to be unaware that they are (or have the potential to be) "literary" or "artful."
Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'
One of the things I've always loved about genre, comic books, science fiction and fantasy is that there's a certain level of playfulness to them, and pure imagination and creativity.
The genre I listen to the most is salsa, so people look at me and see this guy who's done mostly romantic ballads, but there's always been this other side.
Fantasy is my genre and my home in the writing world. I consider it the biggest writing room in all literature, where there are literally no boundaries at all.
People are surprised when they realise that I have sung 'Tinku Jiya' as they felt it was not my genre. As a musician, till the time I don't try something, I don't refuse it. I like challenging jobs.
I was raised on 'TRL' and listened to every genre that sounded good to me, from Sum 41 to Jay Z to Band of Horses to J. Dilla to Deathcab for Cutie to Pharrell.
I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.
I've always tried to avoid electronic music in India because whatever songs I got in the genre I didn't really enjoy singing them - I didn't like the arrangements.
I don't look for anything in particular, like a particular genre. It's all very much to do with the quality of the script and the character as well.
I don't feel genres have helped me as an actor. Movies can be of any genre. But if you give me slapstick, I may not do it.
I don't believe any genre of music can be unilaterally dismissed (aside from like, white-power music or something).
I like to play with transgression and upending conventions, and I like the idea of rooting genre films in character.
One of the difficult things of making a horror sequel in general is because the horror genre is so founded on surprise.
I do love genres, but I love finding new ways into the genre, or making that world fresh again.
As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.
It'll die down like every other genre, but horror has always been one of the four or five main genres that will never go away.
I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.
I like that I'm not typical. I like that I'm called 'no-genre hip-hop.'
Trap is being added to everything. It seems like every genre wants that bit of trap to what they're doing.
With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
I like beautiful writing, pain, unexpected humor, and the message that, at the last second, people are going to be kind to each other. It almost doesn't matter what the genre is.
Coming from 'V' into 'Homeland' was a really big change and the best gift as an actor you can get - which is to transform so drastically from one genre to the next, from lizard to human being!
I'm very fickle when it comes to genre. I read YA, non-fiction, mysteries, romance. I'll read anything that comes with a strong recommendation.
The transgressive nature of biography is rarely acknowledged, but it is the only explanation for biography's status as a popular genre.
I think Spielberg is a master. I think 'Jaws' invented a genre.
I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.
Well, you know, I feel like it's about a lot of things. The reason that I made it was because I thought it was really funny and unique and just a different genre.
The kind of artist I would like to be is definitely versatile. I don't like being boxed in or put into a genre, so to speak.
