Genre Analysis Quotes

In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be a little off-kilter.

Horror, of all the genres, is the only one that can provoke an involuntary visceral reaction.

The sci-fi genre just happens to have a lot of really great characters for women.

I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.

Science fiction always has had strains of pessimism and optimism weaving through its historical development, sometimes one dominating and then the other, usually depending on the state of the world.

I've followed Mysskin sir's work, and I really like his style of filmmaking.

Horror films and genre films are interesting, because I always look for a deeper meaning or a deeper theme in the film.

Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought.

I think people are always saying things are 'over.' Fiction has been regularly 'over' since the 19th century.

My job is to help my father tell stories.

'Slow West' is a western, and it's sort of a twist on the genre stylistically, I think, from what I understand going in.

Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice.

I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright.

Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.

I think comedy is a genre that has a lot of potential. It is a very content-driven film genre.

I like to deconstruct things, deconstruct genres and stories.

The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in westerns, or there's a minimal amount of it.

I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.

Honestly, I had a kid, so you watch the movies your kids want to watch. I'm also a producer, so when I watch movies, I look at them from the genre they are, the budget they had, and the time they had to produce it. That's how I evaluate their success.