I think Tamil films will soon go the Hollywood way. There will be separate full-length humour-driven scripts, just like how thrillers and musicals are becoming successful genres.
I have written in a lot of genres, that’s true, and I’m not sure it’s always served my career well.
Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.
I want to work with a wide range of genres because it gives each film a different cinematic energy.
With ‘Stillness’, I don’t think I appreciated how very codified all the different genres were in radio formats and the various constituencies of the culture. But music is music, too.
When you look at metal, it’s probably one of the healthiest genres when you look at it in a worldwide perspective – every single country listens to metal.
There are genres I don’t care for, and I’ve never worked in those genres, and then sometimes there are people that I haven’t liked and I haven’t worked for those people. But if I feel like there’s a movie that I would like to go see, I’ll jump into it.
While I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can’t worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.
I have touched all genres, be it comedy, tragedy or negative roles.
There’s good movies and there’s bad movies. The genres are never dead, it’s just about how to apply them and articulate them and execute them – the story, the quality of the writing, the acting, the design elements, the directorial execution – all these things make it what it is.
I just want to see a good movie. Fortunately, good movies come in all sorts of genres.
I think there’s really healthy ways to segue into different roles and different genres. I’m not completely opposed to shaving my head and doing something crazy.
In Europe, it is not so unusual for directors to move between opera, theatre, and film, and I have at least three girlfriends I can think of who have directed in all three genres.
I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.
You know Seth and Evan, they were lead writers for ‘Pineapple Express’, and they are great at mixing things up. Taking different genres and mish-mashing them up to create something dynamically new. They’ll throw comedy at you, but with a dash of horror and fright that is supposed to make you shocked and scared.
I don’t like rock. Honestly, I like to listen to it, but it’s not for me. There’s a lot of musical genres that I find interesting, but they don’t suit me. It’s one thing to listen to different genres, but to perform a genre that isn’t yours is counterproductive.
Read everything! Don’t just read things that are in your comfort zone or things that you think you’re already going to like. Experiment; try new stuff and try new genres. If you read a lot of romance, then start reading mystery. If you read a lot of mystery, start reading fantasy.
We like smashing genres into each other, so if you can find something that’s really idiosyncratic in respect to superhero genre and you can smoosh it into it, you usually wind up with something fresh and different.
I’ve been lucky enough to sort of go over different mediums, different vibes and genres.
Some genres of rock ‘n’ roll attract more of the party animals. I guess the Stones partied a bit. I think The Doors were more like The Beatles backstage – friends hanging out and whatever. It wasn’t crazy. Everything was pretty subdued.
I’ve been asked countless times, ‘Why are you drawn to horror films? Why do you think women are drawn to horror films?’ And it’s because, in a way, it’s one of the few genres that tells it like it is. A lot of times, women do feel like they’re running for their lives somehow.
As for finding comfort in the zone, I’m comfortable singing what I write. I like writing emotional and slow, melodious songs. I haven’t tried singing songs from other genres, but yes, I would like to give them a try.
People don’t want rap to be anything other than it is. But genres expand. My contributions, no matter how they sound, will always be rap, because they’ll always be black.
There’s an audience out there for all these different types of things. Whether it’s comedy, motion-picture drama, family movie or a cool, cutting-edge indie, it’s nice to know that I can span all those different genres.
It’s always been the genres that fascinated me. I think great action movies and great thrillers are transformative.
For me, I like to be different. I didn’t want to imitate another wrestler. I always try to find something from other genres, like movies, books, art, and musicals. That’s how I made my style.
We tried to make music that had a very diverse collection of genres – jazz, pop, Latin, even the blues. We tried to have a gumbo soup of expressions. We wanted to create music that would have people dive into a pool of artistic beauty and feel good. And I think we have been really blessed.
I think you can spread yourself across any number of genres when you’re a writer as long as you have a deep, abiding love for each of them.
A teenager can find lots of games, but that’s not necessarily true for adults over 30. As you get older, you desire more intellectual, emotional experiences. If you look at film, there’s many different genres. No matter how old you are, you can find the type of movie you like. That’s a sign of a mature medium.
I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they’re so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That’s why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can’t figure that out.
Comedy is one of the toughest genres. It is so essential to get the timing right, failing which the humour can fall flat.
Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness.
By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it’s possible to learn how things are done – the mechanics of writing, so to speak – and which genres and authors excel in various areas.
I love all genres. The only thing I get stymied by is the Family Drama. I don’t necessarily know how to approach that.
I love bouncing between different genres. And comedy, obviously, is something I enjoy doing the most and I’ve had the most success with. But I’m open to all jobs and all genres.
Only when my ‘Punktown’-based stories began seeing print did I demonstrate my proclivity for blurring the borders between horror, science fiction, and other genres.
For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I’ve been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you can’t write past that.
My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.
My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
I don’t really follow genres. I have a bunch of really poppy tracks and then another super-low-fi, tape-recorded sound. It’s actually really random.
In Australia in the ’70s, there was a real embrace of different genres. And then George Miller did ‘Mad Max’ by the end of the ’70s, the beginning of the ’80s. And it was really thriving.
I think I have allowed my voice to experiment with the different genres. And I think that I have just really enjoyed the journey of getting to know my voice and seeing what it’s capable of, what it’s not capable of.
