Popular Genres Quotes

I am not someone who believes to doing a film just because it is off beat.

People read vampire novels and say, 'Oh I want to read another vampire novel.' People read fantasy, and they're like, 'Oh I love fantasy.' I don't know that people are necessarily finishing 'Hunger Games' and immediately wanting to read another dystopian tale.

I think the focus of the media changes. At the moment the more electronic stuff like trip-hop was the flavor of the month, just a little while ago. It all depends on the angle, from which point of view you see it.

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

Many people, I've noticed by informally polling friends, are prone to distinguishing a beach read by genre. Some people thought all thrillers are beach reads; others thought all romances are. Some people thought only mass market paperbacks are eligible for beach read standards.

Let me be very frank. I make films keeping within the mainstream and my cinema is popular cinema. I love it this way.

There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living — cook books and detective stories.

It is exciting to see the different genres that audiences want to watch. The response to a show like 'Mirzapur' last year and to Delhi Crime earlier this year was so encouraging and a proof that good content is the new formula.

If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.

I didn't learn the word 'genre' until way, way late - I mean, like, in the '80s.