Genre Quotes

You're not limited to a song structure, as you are in pop music. For a song, you've got an intro, a chorus, a bridge, a verse, a chorus, et cetera, and you're done. This is completely open to going left or right at any point. A scoring composer isn't bound to any genre. - Scott Gordon

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor. - Keanu Reeves

You put funny people in funny costumes and paint them green and we could talk about anything we wanted to, because that was the only thing that fascinated Gene about this particular genre. - Majel Barrett

You have to look at a product from every angle. What is the product's genre? What are the platforms? How much money are you going to spend? Who are the people that are building it? Is it a licensed product? Is it an original product? You then present the idea to the green lighting committee, which is, like the senior management in sales, senior management in marketing, and product development. And then, basically, you run the numbers. And it's a numbers game after that. If the unit volume comes back and it supports the development [costs] and what you'll need to spend at marketing, then the product is given the green light. - Michael Pole

You have to connect with your audience. It's harder for everybody in the genre to sustain big audiences these days. - David Corvo

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure? - Tanith Lee

Write the kind of movie you would want to see, in a genre you love. - Douglas Wood

Women mystery writers took a genre that before that had been exclusively male and transformed it. The tradition of the male private eye goes all the way back in literature to the lone man on the edge of society with a moral conscience, saving people's lives. In 1977 Marcia Muller wrote the first female sleuth who was a hard-core professional crime solver. - Joanne Dobson

With her experienced background and on-air presence, audiences next season will see Lynn take the show and its brand to a new level that invigorates the court show genre. - Bob Cook