Genre Change Quotes

I love all Daphne du Maurier's stuff. And just enjoying period dramas, really... wanting to do something drastically different from 'Nighty Night', the chance to write very different language.

I've been bouncing around from comedy to drama and TV and film.

I have worked in comedies and romance genre, so I wanted a change. I wanted to do some tough work.

The most dramatic moves I have made as an actor have been from stage to screen and from sitcom to drama.

I think I'm out of crime fiction now, and I think the dividing line is American Tabloid.

I know I'm a pop star. But sometime I'd like to be a rock star.

You don't want to play the same roles or do the same genre.

I did country way back when I was, like, 13-14 years old, and then I kind of fell into the pop genre.

Being a fan of pop music and rock bands, I am a reluctant convert into the art of instrumental rock music.

I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country music is.

If you're an impressionistic painter and you want to paint expressionism, you've got to change. You've got to figure out a way to do it and do it. If you've been playing jazz all your life and you want to start to play rock n' roll, blues, then do it.

Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.

I had always dreamed of starting off in pop radio and crossing into country. I used to sing country; that was my genre when I was a kid.

I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.

To me, Wu-Tang is beyond Wu-Tang Clan... It's just like, hip-hop is beyond Grandmaster Flash, but Grandmaster Flash was one of the first guys to hit those turntables like that. The same thing with Wu-Tang. You'll see the difference in hip-hop from the moment we came in to before we came in. We changed it. We changed the whole structure.

What I did with Slash and the Conspirators was a very different kind of music. Genre-wise, it is a step in a different direction.

I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something else: a collection of short stories, or writing about something other than high school. A lot has happened to me since I was eighteen.

I never thought I would be in a comedic role; my past is in drama.

Reggeton has changed very much, musically. It has evolved. The artists have also evolved.

It's really kind of a luxury for an actor to have the opportunity to show such different types of characters. I actually left 'Cowboys & Aliens' and went straight into 'The Change-Up.' It was kind of a funny change of pace.

I'm not a Soundcloud rapper anymore.

I still love old-school hip-hop, but there hasn't been a lot that I've taken from the new stuff.

In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer!

There are people who will always want the genre, whatever it is, to stay traditional, to stay what it was like when you were 15 years old, but I just don't think music does that. Music is always changing and evolving, just like us as people.

I hated it so much as a child. I just didn't like it when punk bands went metal, it really bothered me. It was happening left and right in the 1980s. It started I think with D.C. bands - G.I., Soul Side, they went metal. Right at that time, R.E.M. was coming out, these more kinda feminine bands, and I was more drawn to that than to go metal. And you remember MTV, with the bad metal. But even Metallica, it just wasn't my direction.