“All genres are good,
Except the boring one.”

“It could have been extremely boring to write musical scores for only westerns of horror films. It was really exciting for me to work in all these various genres.”

“People are good," he said. "They'll all
be good to you. Except one.”

“There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.”

“'Females of all description' is not a music genre. It's sexist. [There would] never be a 'males of all description' section because the rest of the shop and all other music genres are considered male. Female is not a genre. Don't categorise my sex.”

“Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.”

“If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.”

“American audiences are just the same as anybody else. Except a bit more boring.”

“I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.”

“Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know… It's just good entertainment.”