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“I think what you have to do is have a box office success in every genre and then you're set for life. And fortunately, I happened to do that, so I get a myriad of offers of various sorts.”

Thinking Happened Offers Office Boxes Various Genre Box Office Box Office Success

Author:John Travolta

“So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.”

Hate Genre Provocative

Author:Lady Gaga

“My theory on genre is that while there are people out there who believe that genre tells people what to read, actually I believe that genre exists as a marketing tool to tell you what to avoid.”

People Believe I Believe Theory Tools Marketing Genre Genre Is

Author:Neil Gaiman

“If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.”

Ifs Writing Fiction Reader Genre

Author:Yann Martel

“The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is.”

World Writing Real Character Novel Genre Sufficient Lasting Lasting Love

Author:Ruth Park

“There are all the offsprings of people who are influenced by punk. It sounds completely different - but it's still rock 'n' roll. When hip-hop came on the scene, it was the last legitimate creation of a new genre.”

People Stills Different Lasts Sound Rocks Creation Scene Hip Hop Hips Genre Hops Rock N Roll Punk Offspring

Author:El-P

“Long gone are the days of the stylised old James Bond films with Roger Moore karate chopping his way through the bad guys - audiences are not going to buy it anymore. The genre has got quite serious now.”

Way Long Film Guy Audience Gone Serious Genre Bad Guys Roger Karate Chopping

Author:Adam Rayner

“I think the violence is important. It all depends on the genre. Rambo was ultra-violent, and I think it worked. You have to give Stallone credit. You have to respect him for taking that shot, and taking the violence all the way. He was the first one to do that in a long time. It fricking worked.”

Thinking Way Giving Firsts Long Important Violence Depends Long Time Shots Credit Violent Genre Ultras Rambo

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“I didn't really like jazz that much and was unhappy in that genre. It was what I was doing just to get by and pay rent.”

Pay Jazz Unhappy Genre

Author:Yukimi Nagano

“I needed to get to know myself and really, really explore music without any pressure to sell it. I wanted to try and not restrain myself at all, so I've been trying to move quite freely between different sounds and genres.”

Knows Trying Different Wanted Moving Sound Needed Pressure Sells Genre

Author:Tove Styrke

“When I was a kid, you listened to a certain genre. Now it's like, "I love indie rock, I love hip-hop, jazz, funk." Also, we knew it couldn't be the same thing each year.”

Years Kids Certain Rocks Jazz Hip Hop Hips Genre Hops Funk Indie Rock

Author:Jonathan Rhys Meyers

“I'm happy to try any genre, from drama to comedy and anything in between. Although, to be fair, for most of my career, I've been at the mercy of what people are willing to put me in.”

People Trying Careers Comedy Willing Drama Fairs Mercy Genre

Author:Chris Pratt

“That's how I'm able to work and move between so many different genres - I want to be part of what's happening, I want to make new things.”

Want Different Able Moving Happenings Genre New Things Different Genres

Author:Diplo

“I think a good director can embrace any genre and it's the kind of thing where you always want to do something different. You always want to challenge yourself.”

Thinking Want Kind Different Challenges Directors Embrace Genre Challenge Yourself Good Directors

Author:David Ayer

“Poetry, I'm returning to it, never leaves me. It's my genre completely. In poetry I contemplate myself exuberantly. It's my unique strength. Force of gravity, electric and magnetic energy; in my own way, to make a synthesis.”

Way Energy Force My Own Unique Genre Gravity Contemplating Electric Leaving Me Magnetic Synthesis Never Leave Me

Author:Nicole Brossard

“I think movies should illuminate and teach, but that's for a certain genre.”

Thinking Should Certain Teach Genre Movie

Author:Jordana Brewster

“As a genre-bending blend of police procedural and science fiction, The Silk Code delivers on its promises.”

Fiction Promise Police Science Fiction Code Genre Silk Bending

Author:Gerald Jonas

“I've never recognized 'emo' as a genre of music. I always thought it was the most retarded term ever. I know there is this generic commonplace that every band that gets labeled with that term hates it. They feel scandalized by it. But honestly, I just thought that all the bands I played in were punk rock bands. The reason I think it's so stupid is that - what, like the Bad Brains weren't emotional? What - they were robots or something? It just doesn't make any sense to me.”

Thinking Knows Feels Reason Hate Term Brain Rocks Stupid Emotional Band Honestly Genre Punk Robots Commonplace Punk Rock Rock Bands Retarded Generic Emo Genres Of Music

Author:Guy Picciotto

“Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much rather we do away with genres and simply file everything under fiction. I know it can work -- one of my favourite record stores (Waterloo Music in Austin) simply files everything alphabetically and no one seems to have much problem finding what they're looking for.”

Knows Way Mind Mean Problem Seems Fiction Records Reader Findings Stores One Way Labels Genre Favourite Files Austin Record Stores Waterloo

Author:Charles de Lint

“I found out about college radio and this whole noise genre blew me away. When I saw that guys could just get up there and have no traditional music ability and be in a band, it was really appealing to me.”

Whole Guy Found Ability Saws College Band Radio Noise Traditional Get Up Genre That Guy Traditional Music

Author:Girl Talk

“The internet helps with information exchange in general so it's obviously easier to check out tracks and whatnot from different genres. I think people are a lot more open to music in general because it's being communicated easier.”

People Thinking Different Helping Information Internet Easier Track Checks Genre Different Genres

Author:Girl Talk

“It's crazy to close doors to any genres.”

Doors Crazy Genre

Author:David Lynch

“It's important to listen to lots of different genres because you never know when something will get born out of it.”

Knows Important Different Born Genre Different Genres

Author:David Lynch

“I'm really curious how the private listening - iPods, people listening on their phones - how that might eventual effect music. There'll be a whole genre of music that really works on a kind of one to one headphone or earbud level but doesn't really work when you play it in a room.”

People Kind Play Whole Might Levels Rooms Effects Listening Phones Curious Genre Ipods Headphones Genres Of Music

Author:David Byrne

“For me, my taste is all over the place, so the festival is the perfect match for me because I can hit, again, Against Me! and SZA, all those different genres and the experience is awesome.”

I Can Different Perfect Taste Genre Festivals Because I Can Different Genres Perfect Match

Author:Jennifer Abbott

“I got so much love for classical music and I hear so much incredible music.You should know a bunch of music and have respect for all sorts of genres and styles of music.”

Knows Should Style Incredibles Bunch Genre Classical Music Much Love

Author:Bruno Mars

“I'm hoping that "Nothin' On You", "Billionaire" and "Just The Way You Are" - songs that I produced... I hope that it's a warning for people. I hope it lets them know that I'm a little unorthodox when it comes to genres and styles.”

People Knows Way Littles Song Style Genre Warning Billionaire Unorthodox

Author:Bruno Mars

“Chacun exige d'e" tre innocent, a' tout prix, me" me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel. Everyone insists on his or her innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.”

Ifs Humans Mean Heaven Race Cost Innocent Innocence Genre Human Race Accusing Accusers

Author:Albert Camus

“Even as a child, when kids my age would watch cartoons, I preferred watching horror flicks. I had watched some Hollywood horror flicks and even films made by the Ramsay brothers by the time I was six! I have always been biased towards that genre.”

Children Made Kids Age Film Watches Brother Horror Six Hollywood Genre Cartoon Biased

Author:Emraan Hashmi

“After I tasted success with erotic thrillers, a time came when I was being offered only films belonging to that genre. The industry loves repeating a success formula, and the audience had formed a certain image of mine in their minds.”

Mind Film Certain Audience Mines Industry Genre Belonging Formulas Erotic Thrillers

Author:Emraan Hashmi

“La de couverte d'un mets nouveau fait plus pour le bonheur du genre humain que la de couverte d'une e toile. The discoveryof a newdish doesmore for thehappiness of mankind than the discovery of a star.”

Stars Mankind Mets Discovery Genre Plus

Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“We may need simple and heroic legends for that peculiar genre of literature known as the textbook. But historians must also labor to rescue human beings from their legends in science if only so that we may understand the process of scientific thought aright.”

Ifs Needs Humans May Literature Process Human Beings Simple Known Labor Genre Historian Peculiar Legends Heroic Rescue Textbooks

Book:The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

Source: The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

“At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why the genre is so open to experimentation and innovation that other genres reject--strangeness is our bread and butter. Spread it thick or slice it thin, it's still our staff of life.”

Source: The Writer's Digest Guide to Science Fiction & Fantasy

“But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.”

Stills Film Certain Genre Heroic Standing Out Centerpieces

Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar

“The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means.”

Mean Has Beens Art Made Ends Expression Drama Errors Genre Opera

Book:Prose works

Source: Prose works

“I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the inevitability is part of the fun. Whatever the genre happens to be.”

Ifs Thinking Two Character Happens Fun Wonder Kissing Drawing Genre Inevitability

Author:J. J. Abrams

“With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature. I feel it is unnatural, not I think entirely because it uses a language that is not mine, however closely akin to my own.”

Thinking Feels Use Literature Language My Own Fiction Mines Difficulty Science Fiction Genre Exception Avoiding Unnatural American Literature

Author:Kingsley Amis

“Genres give a vocabulary. They give a frame of reference for the audience to enter into a movie. Then, once they have their footing, that's when you can start doing things that they don't expect.”

Giving Audience Genre Vocabulary Frame Of Reference

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“There's something about the sci-fi genre that gets an audience interested in it, so maybe you can take some risks that you couldn't, if you were just doing a drama. It lets you maybe reach a little further and surprise people a little bit more because there's still that little safety base of working on that genre that everybody loves.”

People Ifs Littles Stills Bits Audience Risk Drama Little Bit Safety Surprise Genre Sci Fi

Author:Rian Johnson

“I don't really have a structured path of wanting to say, "This is what I'll do next." I'm just going to read a bunch of scripts and see which one I love. There are so many things I would love to play, in all different genres.”

Different Play Next Path Scripts Bunch Genre Different Genres

Author:Selena Gomez

“I feel really lucky that, in my career, I've gotten a chance to explore a lot of different genres and kinds of films.”

Feels Kind Different Film Chance Careers Lucky Genre Different Genres

Author:Ali Larter

“Getting back into the action genre is like going back home. It's great.”

Home Action Genre Back Home Genre Is

Author:Dwayne Johnson

“For me it's about the character, not as much about the genre of it [movie]. I'm excited that I get to work and play interesting characters and I'm not just the girl who gets to play the girlfriend or the wife. I get to play real women who have struggles and troubles and passions and that's always what I hope to do no matter what format that lies in.”

Real Matter Play Character Lying Girl Passion Interesting Struggle Wife Trouble No Matter What Excited Genre Girlfriend Format Interesting Characters Real Women Work And Play

Author:Ali Larter

“The goal [of mine] was always to work in as many different genres as I possibly could.”

Different Goal Mines Genre Different Genres

Author:Dwayne Johnson

“The great thing about visual horror films is there's real potential for strong, beautiful imagery. It's the one genre that really lends itself to creating strong images. And I've always loved that idea of windmills - your mind aimlessly spinning.”

Mind Ideas Real Beautiful Film Strong Horror Creating Great Things Genre Visuals Imagery Spinning Horror Film Windmills

Author:Tim Burton

“The goal with me, and the way I challenge myself as an actor, is to go from genre to genre. I like that. A lot of actors always challenge themselves. But for me the challenge lies not only in getting better, but going from drama to comedy to action or whatever the case may be, and having a wide array of movies in terms of my filmography.”

Way May Action Lying Actors Goal Term Challenges Cases Comedy Drama Wide Genre Get Better

Author:Dwayne Johnson

“Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something.”

“I'm not necessarily that big of a clubbing junkie, but I really like dance music as a genre.”

Bigs Genre Junkie Dance Music

Author:Mika

“I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.”

Thinking Genre Genres Of Music

Author:Mika

“I think I'm sort of locked into the sitcom genre”

Thinking Genre Locked Sitcom

Author:Jason Marsden

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