“I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material.” KindMeanCertainMy OwnNovelMaterialsDirectorsExcitedGenreSomedayConventions Author:Todd Solondz
“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.” WayEnergyForceMy OwnUniqueGenreGravityContemplatingElectricLeaving MeMagneticSynthesisNever Leave Me Author:Nicole Brossard
“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.” ThinkingFeelsUseLiteratureLanguageMy OwnFictionMinesDifficultyScience FictionGenreExceptionAvoidingUnnaturalAmerican Literature Author:Kingsley Amis
“As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely around among realism, magical realism, science fiction, fantasy of various kinds, historical fiction, young adult fiction, parable, and other subgenres, to the point where much of it is ungenrifiable, all got shoved into the Sci Fi wastebasket or labeled as kiddilit - subliterature.” YearsKindMovingYoungMy OwnFictionFantasyBearsAdultsScience FictionHistoricalYoung AdultVariousGenreBigotryHistorical FictionSci FiScarResentmentRealismMagical RealismParables Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged.” WantHas BeensTwoLastsGivenMy OwnFictionCareersInfluenceScience FictionListsLabelsGenrePrizeMainstreamDissidentsCyberpunkManifestos Author:William Gibson
“The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.” ProblemFilmMy OwnTasteGenre Author:Ben Wheatley
“Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's not the reason I read. I read for my own emotional and mental health. If I stopped reading, I'd probably just die.” IfsImportantReasonLyingDiesReadingMy OwnWrittenEmotionalMental HealthGenre Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“I had a lot of issues with the genre, and I probably even had issues with the whole idea of genre. I was coming into it with a certain degree of outsider attitude, and I didn't have a long-term plan. But I think the way it's worked out, it's sort of warped into what I suppose you could say is my own genre. If people like my books, they have some idea of what the next one will be like.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayLongBookIdeasWholeCertainNextTermMy OwnAttitudeIssuesPlansDegreesGenreLong TermOutsidersThe Next One Author:William Gibson
“My stuff is my stuff. I do it for my own reasons, using my own peculiar set of guidelines. I'm not a student of the genre. I don't care what anybody else does.” DoeReasonCareStuffMy OwnStudentsDon't CareGenreI Don't CarePeculiarGuidelines Author:George A. Romero
“That's how it always is with me: the thing that sets me down to start writing is usually not what I end up doing. Because, as much as I love genre, and I try to deliver the goods, I go off from it. I go do my own thing.” WritingTryingEndsMy OwnGenreGoods Author:Quentin Tarantino
“I think that with the Internet, it has given a lot of people the opportunity to get themselves out there to the masses. But it's easy to group everyone that's on the Internet together. I try to cross and jump around between genres and different styles, kind of find my own niche.” PeopleThinkingTryingKindDifferentTogetherOpportunityGivenEasyMy OwnGroupsStyleInternetMassCrossesGenreNicheDifferent Styles Author:Mac Miller
“I'm open to doing any kind of role and any kind of genre as long as it's interesting and as long as I feel it could be a great character to play. I never take into my own personal opinions or my own public image into account when I chose movie roles.” FeelsKindLongPlayCharacterMy OwnInterestingOpinionRolesAccountsGenreGreat CharacterPersonal OpinionsPublic Image Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“I owe a lot to my parents, because they kept no genre off limits. Music was always playing in the house. They never told me to be quiet, turn the music down or anything like that. So I felt pretty free and experimental as a kid to kind of figure out my own voice.” KindKidsTurnsHouseFeltParentVoiceMy OwnFiguresQuietLimitsGenre Author:Tori Kelly
“Hip-hop wasn't actually the genre that made me want to make sound, and I couldn't actually really pinpoint what genre it was. Growing up, my favorite music was my parents' music, and eventually I started to develop some taste of my own.” WantMadeParentSoundMy OwnGrowing UpGrowingTasteMy FavoriteHip HopHipsGenreHopsFavorite Music Author:Grieves