I’ve been singing for a really long time and I love a lot of genres, but country just seemed like the best fit. The people in that genre are just so nice and welcoming. And that seemed so appealing. Also my voice fit it and seemed like the way to go.
The four movies I can remember seeing as a kid were ‘The Elephant Man,’ ‘The Magnificent Seven,’ ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’ and ‘Mad Max!’ Two of those are westerns. So the western genre is emblazoned on my memory from childhood, and those are two great movies.
When I first released music, and no one knew what I looked like, I would read comments like: ‘I’ve never heard anything like this before; it’s not in a genre.’ And then my picture came out six months later: now she’s an R&B singer.
I didn’t grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.
It’s weird to see the parallel between ‘Gilmore Girls’ and a lot of the Comic-Con-type, sci-fi-fantasy fans. In a weird way, even though ‘Gilmore Girls’ is not in that genre, the way the fandom conducts itself and has created this community is similar.
I always knew I wanted to make movies since I was around eleven. I never thought of it as wanting to do straight-up comedy. Even now, I don’t see things in terms of genre.
With parody, you’re referencing and sending up a particular genre, and mostly your material is going to be taken out of that genre.
I want to make my music a genre that people can immediately identify: something that never existed.
Joe Lansdale is one of the few writers able to write in whatever genre or mode he wants on any particular day. How? He doesn’t ask permission. He just steps in, out-writes everybody in the room.
I’m a writer, not a genre.
There are so few good comedy sequels. The only one in recent memory that’s good is ’22 Jump Street.’ It’s a hard genre.
I guess there was a little bit of a slight rebellion, maybe a little bit of a renegade desire that made me realize at some point in my adolescence that I really liked pictures that told stories of things – genre paintings, historical paintings – the sort of derivatives we get in contemporary society.
Nothing surprises me on ‘Happy Endings,’ because the show – I think one of the awesome things about the show is that it’s so open to doing anything. We could do a genre episode. We have the green light to do whatever we want. Mostly because no one’s watching.
There are people who will always want the genre, whatever it is, to stay traditional, to stay what it was like when you were 15 years old, but I just don’t think music does that. Music is always changing and evolving, just like us as people.
I never got into the horror genre, and action was fine, but I just loved comedy. Any comedy I could get my hands on, I would. I watched ‘Saturday Night Live’ religiously.
When this genre of music started in America, Metallica was up north in California, we were in Southern California, Anthrax was on the East Coast. We each developed our own metal music, and after 30 years, we’re still playing our metal music.
Readers have always read high and low, and to fight that urge is to fight the freedom inherent in the act of reading itself. The only arguments that have any traction, as best as I can see it, are about whether the genre classification of ‘young adult’ should exist at all.
I discovered the fun of genre is… you get to explore your fears, and you get to use the metaphor of the genre – whether it’s a giant monster or a… 12-year-old vampire. Whatever it is, you can sink something underneath the surface and make a personal film under the guise of great fun romp.
Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of ‘Star Wars.’
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.
In America, they have specialist mystery book stores with whole sections devoted to cat mysteries, golf mysteries, quilting mysteries. It’s a hugely broad genre from the darkest noir to tales of a 19th-century vet who solves crimes, thanks to his talking cat.
I would agree ‘Paul’ is a sci-fi genre movie. And a road movie.
All writing and publishing is very difficult, regardless of genre. There are going to be obstacles no matter what.
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.
When I tried to get ‘Stargate’ made, I took it to every studio in Hollywood and every studio said, ‘Sci-fi is dead. It’s a dead genre. No one wants to see science fiction anymore.’ And I had to go and raise the money independently to make that movie.
I just watched so many Westerns as a kid that you end up using archetypes and sort of tropes of that genre, because there’s a language there and you can twist it and turn it on its head or play to it or go sideways at any time.
No, there isn’t a particular type of genre that I’m drawn to. I’m more drawn to the possibility of creating different characters, or being able to go from one genre to the other and to show that I could do it, that I could be good at it.
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.
My feeling is that I don’t really care about the genre or the size of the movie. I care about the quality of the writing and the quality of the characters.
I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It’s as difficult to write a crime or a children’s novel with a touch of style and grace as it is a literary novel.
I never set out to be part of a genre, because I listen to all types of music.
It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me.
People get caught up in recreating something, and that actually hurts the genre of music because there’s nothing new.
I never choose a genre over quality. I never think, ‘I want to do that,’ and sacrifice the fact it might not be very good.
A lot of singers find a musical genre people like and stick with it. That’s being a conformist. I sing ballads, rock, salsa, rap.
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.
I teach 18- to 21-year-olds – the ‘Harry Potter’ generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some point, I would love for them to give Umberto Eco or A.S. Byatt a try. I hope ‘A Discovery of Witches’ will serve as a kind of stepping-stone.
I love all types of music, and I think the genre lines are starting to get thinner every year.
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 enjoy turning things on the audience. I really like working in genre because people come into the films with certain expectations. They know the tropes so well that, when you turn on those, it can be shocking because there’s a complacency that comes with watching those films.
Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That’s the nature of genre.
The TV mini-series is kind of a lost genre because the networks have given up on it.
I don’t often know exactly what’s coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it’s all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.
The fantasy genre has so far rather embraced me, and I’m incredibly grateful for that.
I’m not a big believer in the idea of genre – I’m a fan of any writer who can pull me into compelling characters and stories – but I can’t imagine I’ll start writing domestic dramas any time soon.
I vividly remember Charles Bronson’s face in ‘Chino.’ The western genre is screaming for a face like that.
I feel so fortunate to have been able to work so much, particularly in the horror-thriller genre, but I would love to be able to do something perhaps a little more dramatic or even a romantic comedy.
I spent the first part of my career trying to avoid genre because I felt like genre, in some way, was cliche.
Texas is really special in that we have our own music scene, our own music chart. It’s almost a genre on its own. It feels like you can make a great living just touring the state because it’s so big, but eventually, I wanted a new challenge.
People in rock had this idea that rappers aren’t talented. In my opinion we’re better writers, we think deeper, and our concepts are harder – Rap evolves faster than any other genre.
I didn’t know what the word ‘genre’ meant till I was twenty years old.
The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that’s not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The ones I love are the genre pictures with some subversive message underlying it all.
I don’t know if I necessarily fit in the action-thriller genre, but I’d love to do something where I could actually kick some butt and then tell a few jokes. That would be awesome! That would be my dream job.
