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“I'm not coming from film school. I learned cinema in the cinema watching films, so you always have a curiosity. I say, 'Well, what if I make a film in this genre? What if I make this film like this?'”

Ifs Wells School Film Curiosity Genre Cinema What If Film School

Author:Wong Kar-wai

“The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror genre that shows a growing appetite for watching torture, or at least a desire to explore it on film? And if so, why would that be? I can't pretend I know. I just know I don't like it.”

Ifs Knows Men I Can Shows Film Desire Asks Growing Happened Middle Horror Genre Torture Appetite Middle Aged Horror Genre

Author:Mark Gatiss

“All in all, I think that out of all musical genres, the world of metal is the most escapist one. Metal is also music for people who think for themselves. I think metalheads are smart people who possess a healthy dose of self-irony and a good sense of humor, and that appeals to me. I felt a strong affinity with the scene from the first moment on.”

“Take the time you need to learn the craft. Then sit down and write. When you hand over your completed manuscript to a trusted reader, keep an open mind. Edit, edit, and edit again. After you have written a great query letter, go to AgentQuery.com. This site is an invaluable resource that lists agents in your genre. Submit, accept rejection as part of the process, and submit again. And, of course, never give up.”

Source: The Kitchen House: A Novel

“I don't like to label films with a genre.”

Film Labels Genre

Author:Tom Felton

“A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom”

Giving Writing Form Possibility Models Patterns Limitation Genre

Author:W. G. Sebald

“This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.”

Black Mankind Sorrow Tragedy Genre Ghetto Black Ghetto

Author:Jacob Lawrence

“People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fascinated by these short genres. They seem to lie just where my heart is, somewhere between literature and philosophy.”

People Heart Long Stills Book Philosophy Stories Seems Lying Literature Example My Heart Appreciate Genre Short Story Fascinated Long Book Literary Genre

Author:Gary Saul Morson

“Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser and more intelligent than his readers.”

Writing Doe Reader Intelligent Conviction Arguing Genre Aphorism Wiser Quotations Assertion Implicit Aristocratic

Author:W. H. Auden

“With Australian audiences, there's a certain level of education - as far as how much access and exposure they have to music from various genres. So when you do 'Big Day Out' and there are all these different musical acts, you see the same people in your crowd that were there for a completely different artist.”

People Different Bigs Artist Certain Levels Audience Musical Crowds Various Access Genre Exposure Australian

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“For a writer, and particularly a writer of my genre, which is the fantastical, I think that it's to my advantage to feel remote from and disconnected from the world of deal making.”

Thinking World Feels Deals Advantage Genre Disconnected

Author:Clive Barker

“Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But 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.”

Knows Feels Writing Years Wells Long Has Beens I Can Book Might Night Courses Worry Successful Pressure Genre Overnight Success Long Nights

Author:Kate Morton

“It doesn't matter to me what the genre is.”

Matter Genre Genre Is

Author:Steve Buscemi

“Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. Certainly there are elements of reader expectation that play into various genres, and those are important, but it also becomes about packaging, placement, audience....In the end, I'm not a fan of labels. I think the best fiction blurs the boundaries between genres, stretches and breaks them.”

Thinking Writing Important Ends Play Sides Fiction Talking Break Audience Fans Reader Elements Expectations Various Honestly Boundaries Labels Genre Blur Packaging Placement

Author:Kristin Hannah

“Well, as a short-story writer, I don't think there are any weaknesses to the genre itself. I guess I would say that the difficulty of the form is that one must create an entire world in five to 30 pages, as opposed to 300. There is very little room for fat - you must be economical. And you must begin as close to the end as you possibly can.”

Thinking World Writing Wells Littles Ends Stories Form Rooms Five Pages Weakness Difficulty Fats Genre Short Story Story Writers

Author:ZZ Packer

“I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.”

Feels May Matter Young Pay Musician Harder Genre

Author:Bryan Adams

“I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try stuff from other genres and try to widen my musical base.”

Want Trying Stuff Black Musical Genre Gospel Music Black Music

Author:Greg Lake

“SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.”

Way Cutting Fields Genre One Time Embedded One Direction

Author:Larry Niven

“Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.”

Vote Genre Categories Dislike Irrelevant Casting

Author:Tanith Lee

“There's not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.”

Hard Genre

Author:Billy Gibbons

“Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.”

Ifs Culture Pay Attention Rocks Hip Hop Hips Pay Attention Genre Hops Embodiment Djs Recorded Music

Author:Chuck D

“I'm not loyal to one genre. I want to mix it up.”

Want Genre Loyal

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“I am fortunate enough to have worked on, and continue to work on, evolutionary movies in all formats from just simple good story telling, which still matters most of all, to CG movies to tent-pole size 3D movies, and genre 3D movies like 'Piranha 3D.”

Stills Matter Enough Stories Simple Size Genre Fortunate Good Story Format Tents

Author:Mark Canton

“I love doing horror with comedy twists and I think it's a really fun genre.”

Thinking Fun Comedy Horror Genre Twists

Author:Katrina Bowden

“I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things.”

Trying Different Character Wanted Film Creating Genre Different Things Different Genres

Author:Alison Brie

“The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.”

Western Genre Cinema Identical

Book:What Is Cinema?

Source: What Is Cinema?

“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.”

Looks Different War Stars Originals Various Genre War Movie Different Looks

Author:Bruce Boxleitner

“To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.”

Successful Genre Being Successful Unsuccessful

Author:Chester Bennington

“The space genre is timeless.”

Space Genre Timeless Genre Is

Author:Dirk Benedict

“People try to read a lot into what 'digital' means. It's just another platform. There are very attractive things that happen if you invest in content - movies, TV production, acquired series, specialty genres, digital distribution of our magazines, sports rights.”

People Ifs Trying Mean Happens Sports Rights Tvs Series Productions Magazines Genre Attractive Digital Platforms Distribution Specialty Attractive Things

Author:Jeffrey Bewkes

“I do always like to do things I haven't done before, so I'm always looking out for things in a different genre, or a different sort of character.”

Different Done Character Havens Genre Different Genres

Author:Jim Broadbent

“I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.”

Writing Boundaries Genre Complementary

Author:Julianna Baggott

“What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.”

Purpose Genre Classic Exploration Royal

Author:Robert Ballard

“We all know from growing up with TV that John Wells shows are usually very large ensembles with amazingly written characters. He tends to redefine the way stories are told in a specific genre, whether it's 'China Beach,' 'The West Wing,' or 'E.R.”

Knows Way Wells Character Stories Shows Growing Up Growing Written Tvs Wings West China Beach Genre Ensemble

Author:Michael Cudlitz

“We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.”

Kind Certain Interest Crowds Genre Whales

Author:Bill Condon

“I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether it's science fiction, horror or really anything. I'm just drawn to quality. I don't think 'Darkness Falls' is horror; there isn't any gore by any stretch of the imagination.”

Thinking Kind Fall Imagination Fiction Quality Darkness Horror Projects Science Fiction Genre Gore

Author:Emma Caulfield

“Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing.”

People Knows Wells Country Artist Grew Grew Up Singing Genre Know Me Country Artist

Author:Kristin Chenoweth

“I love mixing up my genres.”

Genre Mixing

Author:Rosanne Cash

“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.”

Whole Jobs Vision Concepts Built Genre Opera Composer

Author:Stewart Copeland

“I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.”

Thinking Way Would Be Shame Genre Publishers

Author:Emma Donoghue

“In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.”

Ifs Stories Seems Wanted Past Film Stage Television Picks Mediums Genre Good Story Bounce

Author:Garret Dillahunt

“Down the road a bit, I would like to write a couple of stand-alone adult novels, especially in the horror genre. I've got lots of things up my sleeve.”

Writing Bits Novel Couple Horror Adults Genre Sleeves Down The Road Stand Alone Horror Genre

Author:James Dashner

“I have done all of the genres, and the dramatic role is my favorite.”

Done Roles My Favorite Genre Dramatic

Author:Jeff Daniels

“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.”

Way Writing Trying Book Matter Bigs Subjects Style Best Way Familiar Block Genre Subject Matter Looming

Author:Jeffery Deaver

“Repetitiveness is one of the things that's most difficult to get away from in genre pictures, because people come specifically to see certain kinds of things but get disappointed if they're presented in the same way. So to try to find a new way to show old stuff is always the challenge.”

People Ifs Way Trying Kind Shows Certain Stuff Difficult Challenges Genre Get Away Disappointed New Ways Old Stuff

Author:Joe Dante

“The visceral experience of seeing a movie in three dimensions, coming at you in the theater, is obviously here to stay, because it is a unique experience. I think that kind of format is only appropriate for some genres, but I'm all for it.”

Thinking Kind Three Seeing Unique Theater Genre Dimensions Appropriate Format Visceral Three Dimensions Unique Experiences

Author:Cary Elwes

“I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic depends on how far back your memory extends.”

Writing Memories Fiction Depends Labels Genre Historic Our Memories

Author:Charles Frazier

“I really feel that the thing that I love the most about my career is that it is so eclectic. You know, I've gone from so many genres and so many different mediums and I love that most - that people have always given me the chance to do vastly different things.”

People Knows Feels Different Given Chance Careers Gone Mediums Genre Different Things Eclectic

Author:Katie Finneran

“I have really diverse tastes, which can be problematic sometimes, but it's good because it means I'm always listening to as much music as possible. I love listening to music, whatever genre it is.”

Mean Sometimes Listening Taste Genre Diverse Listening To Music

Author:Richard Fleeshman

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