Quotes having the keyword Genre
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.
by R. A. Salvatore (Author, American , born in 1959) keywords: away, coming, entire, exactly, fun, genre, getting, having, just, know, little, makes, more, mundane, next, often, while , world The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
by Jose Saramago (Writer, Portuguese , born in 1922) keywords: filled, genre, literary, many, much, novel, rivers, sea , space Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.
by John Shirley (Author, American , born in 1953) keywords: always, artists, born, categories, confuse, entertain, fine, genre, labels, means, nature, only, ostensibly, recognize, smarter, transcend, try, within, working , writers 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.
by Todd Solondz (Writer, American , born in 1959) keywords: adapt, better, both, certain, conventions, directors, drawn, excited, genre, kind, many, material, mean, more, novels, other, own, probably, skilled, someday, too, within, work , worse Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.
by Nicholas Sparks (Author, American , born in 1965) keywords: authors, books, focus, genre, lot, mind, questions, read, variety, want, write , your To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.
by Sheri S. Tepper (Author, American , born in 1929) keywords: always, been, between, escape, fantasy, fiction, genre, idea, ideas, kind, little, maybe, science, some, two , well I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema.
by Guillermo del Toro (Director, Mexican , born in 1964) keywords: cinema, film, genre, horror, independent, legitimate, nothing, part, rest , see But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can.
by Pete Townshend (Musician, British , born in 1945) keywords: andy, best, campbell, did, example, genre, happening, image, interesting, marilyn, monroe, new, pop, represent, see, soup, them, things, think, took, warhol, way, were, which , work I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.
by Keith Urban (Musician, American , born in 1967) keywords: anyone, because, does, fact, genre, industry, kinds, know, listen, listens, most, music, oblivious, only, personally, stuff, think , vanity Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.
by Joan D. Vinge (Author, American , born in 1948) keywords: bestseller, beyond, both, climb, compelled, enjoy, even, fantasy, fiction, genre, likely, lists, literature, more, mysteries, nonfiction, onto, other, rather, reading, science, seem, some, than, though, variety, wide , write Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for.
by Larry Wachowski (Director, American , born in 1965) keywords: billy, bound, contained, could, create, felt, film, genre, get, heavy, influence, kind, level, looking, much, noir, really, set, story, style, wanted, were, where , wilder With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
by Larry Wachowski (Director, American , born in 1965) keywords: around, assumptions, everyone, expectations, film, genre, mess, noir, once, place, really, start, these, things, those , twist We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.
by Keenen Ivory Wayans (Comedian, American , born in 1958) keywords: done, felt, find, genre, group, had, movies, much, next, parody, ripe, scary, slasher, trying , were I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die.
by Roberta Williams (Designer, American , born in 1953) keywords: adventure, any, believe, die, ever, game, genre, more, never, storytelling, than, type, will , would But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.
by Bruce Willis (Actor, American , born in 1955) topics: Movies , Celebrity Quotes keywords: action, bad, come, film, genre, gonna, guys, new, some , up Our fathers were actually business partners in the same real-estate firm, and we got together and thought, How can we get a movie together and get distribution and create a new movie genre? We started by making satires of commercials.
by David Zucker (Director, American , born in 1947) keywords: actually, business, commercials, create, distribution, fathers, firm, genre, get, got, how, making, movie, new, our, partners, real-estate, same, started, thought, together , were
