Themes Quotes

• There are so many different themes and characters and worlds within the movie, ... Lo and behold, we find that the editing of all those little strains in a movie can be really difficult. I didn't want to start cutting out characters wholesale and savaging the many different performances. Over time, showing the movie became the only way to figure out how it was all rhythmically working.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Time
  • Different
  • Character

• I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Think
  • Baseball
  • Themes

• I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • People
  • Language
  • Certain

• Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Life
  • Understanding
  • Negative

• I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Poetry
  • Beauty
  • Themes

• When I wrote the lyrics, melodies, and the first themes of 'Serendipity,' I tried to come up with some rare things you find in life, something very special, like the calico, three-striped cat; things that have extraordinary meanings in people's lives.

  

  Kim Nam-joon BTS
  • People
  • Life
  • Lyrics

• These are the themes in life which are consistent in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism - of being grounded in who you are and being engaged in an unjust world.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Life
  • World
  • Hinduism

• Not really. I thought it was going to be but never really got around to writing about anything in particular. Just a lot of instant song composing and regular themes that I wouldn't even want to elaborate on...

  

  Cedric Bixler-Zavala At the Drive-In
  • Song
  • Themes

• Imams must ridicule Caliphate fantasies. Exchange programmes between Muslim-only schools and non-Muslim-majority schools should be initiated. Community-based debates around these themes must no longer be shut down from fear of offence.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Fear
  • Community
  • Down

• There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Fiction
  • Legitimate
  • Themes

• I never think about themes. I let the music create itself. I like it to be a potpourri of all kinds of sounds, all kinds of colors, something for everybody, from the farmer in Ireland to the lady who scrubs toilets in Harlem.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Music
  • Sounds
  • Harlem

• I've always thought that Boathouse Row looked best at night, when hundreds of electric lights outline the shape of each building, truning them into fantastic postcard themes. I knew, however, from many visits to Boathouse Row, that at the same time, armies of rats were holding maneuvers in the basements.

  

  Brad Alan Lewis
  • Night
  • Building
  • Rats

• The great thing about really heightened historical dramas is that they can convey much larger themes.

  

  Cynthia Addai-Robinson
  • Great
  • Historical
  • Dramas

• I like the stories with the historical themes.

  

  Sarah Sutton
  • Stories
  • Historical
  • Themes

• If a person just takes what is socio-political and geographical from the themes of my films then that's not enough. But if the person goes out of the theatre and, for example, makes the dinner he's eating later on, extra nice then I feel that I have succeeded. We have this urge to anaesthetize the moment we're living in.

  

  Elia Suleiman
  • Theatre
  • Films
  • Succeeded

• There's so many great themes from the '80s: 'Magnum,' 'Miami Vice.'

  

  Ramin Djawadi
  • Miami
  • Themes

• I think a melody is a melody. And the way I usually start is I start writing my themes without even writing to picture to just try to find the tone for the movie or the TV show.

  

  Ramin Djawadi
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Picture

• Everyone's got something that they've held onto from their childhood or from a past relationship, someone who's told you what you are, and it's leaving all that behind and living a happy life and realizing that a lot of that is inside you - really uncovering that. The story - those themes - are heavy themes that everyone can connect to.

  

  Joshua Henry
  • Story
  • Connect
  • Themes

• A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Stories
  • Movies
  • Themes