There's not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.
Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
It's really hard to find just a simple character-driven drama, outside of a genre, that was available to direct, except for on TV.
[With] this show [This Is Us], I don't think I was seeking something outside of the world I'd always played in so much as I'm ruled by characters. If it's a great character, I'm invested. It doesn't matter what the genre, what the storyline, anything.
I'm a big movie fan, and I want to make movies in every genre. I want to make my romantic comedy one day.
Imagine my delight and awe when I discovered such a thing was a real genre - contemporary fantasy or urban fantasy. It was like having my birthday twice in one week and cookie dough for breakfast.
Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.
While the romance genre has expanded so much over the years, in an odd way it's also narrowed, with too many people trying to stick stories into tight, well-defined marketing niches. It can, admittedly, be a tricky balancing act, but I believe the key is to be able to step back and take a long hard look at what you do well, what makes your work different from other writers, what feels the most natural to you when you're writing.
I feel like people, when it comes to music, whatever genre, they relate to the story more than just the song.
Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past.
I'm just looking for material that excites me more than any specific genre. It just needs to be good.
Genre is a minimum security prison.
Whatever the genre of film you're doing and whatever the source material is, you have to adapt to the different genre, but it's the same work, as an actor. You're just trying to ground it in reality and find your truth in it.
The genre [of hard-partying girls] seems to have gone out of style - instead of young women who drink too much, it's young women who don't eat enough.
I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.
Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.
Arnold Rampersad's stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled-in magisterial prose-the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph Ellison's own masks and myths. One of the nation's most brilliant writers emerges as all the more fascinating precisely because he was so very human. Painstakingly researched and compellingly written, Ralph Ellison is a masterwork of the genre of literary biography.
I don't write toward a genre, and I try not to make claim to a genre after a book is published. That said, The Guardians isn't poetry. It's prose.
I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.