I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.
Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact.
I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.
The goal [of mine] was always to work in as many different genres as I possibly could.
I'm just looking for material that excites me more than any specific genre. It just needs to be good.
I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise. ' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing a song; hopefully you are doing it to explore something, to create something, and I don't agree that any of my albums are genre exercises.
The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.
As a screenwriter I'm often writing in genres where there have been thousands of movies; whereas when I direct movies they tend to be in between genres. They tend to have a little bit of a genre to them, but they're really about the people, and they're people we haven't met before.
'Drown' was always a hybrid book. It's connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the reader to decide which genre they thought the book belonged to more - story, novel, neither, both.
Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
There are no authors in my genre. No one is doing what I do.
I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.
I've always found that whatever you say about indie rock, it is the most inclusive genre or title for anything. It doesn't pin you down too much, like other labels would. It's just newer, it has less baggage.
I'm not sure what kept me from the mainstream. I thought it was because I was too hard to pin down genre-wise.
I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.
Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don't mind saying that, it's true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them.
It's just cool to do something different and branch out and dabble in different genres.
A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.
I'm a big movie fan, and I want to make movies in every genre. I want to make my romantic comedy one day.
I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.