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Last updated on November 28, 2024.
It's always gonna be different when I make a record just because I kind of touch on every sort of genre.
If you look at the horror genre, that work is all about making people uncomfortable by stimulating our fear of death.
My goal is definitely to direct features - action movies, that's my favorite genre. So I would love to do the 'Halo' movie. — © Aisha Tyler
My goal is definitely to direct features - action movies, that's my favorite genre. So I would love to do the 'Halo' movie.
Podiobooks rules. It's still the best way I know to find an audience for longer works in any genre.
In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be a little off-kilter.
Personally, I find the world of memorabilia fascinating: how people get so focused on one genre, music, or person.
I do think that Lovecraft is very influential to the horror genre, but I also didn't want to ignore the fact that he's a major racist.
I'm not sure what kept me from the mainstream. I thought it was because I was too hard to pin down genre-wise.
I fell in love with R&B music at a young age. The energy and aesthetic of that genre strike an emotional chord with me.
I knew what kind of genre 'Casa de mi Padre' was going for. But my character, specifically, I think is very real.
It is quite amazing how K-pop has developed over the years. This genre has so many musical components that it has no limitations.
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 always think it's a little bit of a challenge when people sort of associate female artists as their own genre. — © Grace Potter
I always think it's a little bit of a challenge when people sort of associate female artists as their own genre.
I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable poetic power; hence even more literary fireworks there.
Each genre has something to teach me about the others. Not all the lessons are transferable, but many of the most important ones are.
I used to love jungle. I still think it's the ultimate genre, really, because the people making it weren't musicians.
There's something about the comic book genre that I think is so cool and artsy and unique. It's not like anything else.
For the first time I tried to involve an important social message about transgenders in the horror comedy genre.
Kafka's inevitable tropism for the allegorical puts him in marked opposition to the realism that dominated the literary world of the first half of the 20th century.
I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I write.
I feel like people, when it comes to music, whatever genre, they relate to the story more than just the song.
Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.
I don't believe in comedy as a TV genre - I think there's drama that is funny. Because beyond the laughs, there has to be cost, and there has to be heart.
It's incredibly cool that R & B artists like Kanye and the Weekend, who from a completely different genre to us have tapped into 'The Hurting.'
You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.
I don't really feel the loyalty to any particular genre. To be completely honest, I'm an R&B singer because I'm black and I sing.
For me, the romantic comedies I love are the ones that pay homage to the genre, but also find their ways to twist it and tweak it.
The beauty of collabs is being able to genre-blend and try different things that you never would get to do.
I reject the concept that comic books in movies are a genre. I have been fighting that for many years, with the powers-that-be in Hollywood.
I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy.
It has been my experience that the greatest performers in the genre of sports-entertainment are usually natural extensions of their own, true personality.
Swavey is a musical genre that I came up with to describe artists who are too talented to stay in a box with their music.
I love suspense movies, because in a sense they're the most dreamlike of any genre, and I'm sure I'll make another one.
Genre is a useful thing when organizing texts in a bookshop but immaterial to the particular exchange between writer and reader.
Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there's not a tragic ending.
I wasn't very academically inclined, growing up as a child, and the only subject I was good at was English. I had a flair for it, since I came from a literary background.
For a while, the genre seemed to be just about sex and crime. Rappers are storytellers; the stories don't need to be true!
I understand it for marketing purposes, but I've always hated defining myself with a genre. Nothing feels broad enough. — © Goapele
I understand it for marketing purposes, but I've always hated defining myself with a genre. Nothing feels broad enough.
I stick to Hindi rap. That is my USP. It gives an Indian essence to my music despite the foreign influence of the genre.
Bangalore Days' is a complete entertainer that is a completely different a genre from 'Ustad Hotel,' and the songs are just that - entertaining.
Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.
The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one.
The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.
I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre.
I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.
I believe comedy is the toughest genre to bring alive onscreen, but it's something that I really enjoy doing as an actor.
One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with the reader.
ELANTRIS is a new BEN HUR for the fantasy genre, with a sweeping, epic storyline and closely personal characters. — © Kevin J. Anderson
ELANTRIS is a new BEN HUR for the fantasy genre, with a sweeping, epic storyline and closely personal characters.
We're four guys that play music. We're not a part of any genre. We just happened to have come out in 1998.
What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part - it's character. I like to find characters.
Probably the best explanation for my success and other Internet writers, is that we're tapping a genre or a niche out there that needs to be filled and isn't.
I don't really care that much about genre labels. I tend to write across a variety of different genres.
The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.
The Scandis blew the crime genre out of the water and the Americans have been doing interesting things with it for years.
It is male-chauvinistic industry, and there's still a long way to go for the female-centric genre to come to the fore.
I've always loved absurdism and plays of that genre. I think that my humour is very much rooted in theatre and drama.
The horror genre has been for me an original way of taking an explicit visual and visionary approach to directing.
People aren't used to thinking of cultural forms spreading out across the full range of formal interactions - or what is called the 'text' in literary terms.
We've always wanted to aim to be the only one and hopefully one day we'll be able to create this new genre called Babymetal.
What some of the early horror genre masters knew, and what I know, is that the audience are perverts, but in the best possible way.
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