“You read reviews by top reviewers of films that not only had remarkably interesting scores, but films whose effectiveness was absolutely enhanced, and frequently created by the music, yet the reviewers seem unaware that their emotions and their nervous reactions to the films have been affected by the scoring. This is a serious flaw. Any film reviewer owes it to himself, and the public, to take every element of the film into account.” Has BeensSeemsFilmInterestingEmotionSeriousElementsAccountsReactionsNervousScoreFlawsAffectedReviewsEffectivenessReviewers Author:Jerry Goldsmith
“I like to be as diverse as possible. I think the humorous side and the serious side are both elements of my personality. It's what makes me who I am and if I was to neglect either one of those sides and just focus on one of them, it wouldn't be the full spectrum of my personality.” IfsThinkingSidesFocusSeriousPersonalityElementsHumorousWho I AmNeglectDiverseSpectrum Author:Macklemore
“From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.” KnowsWritingYearsActionFictionCreativeTeachingSeriousElementsDeserveSettingSettingsGrantedTreatmentCreative WritingFiction Writing Author:Garry Disher
“By all odds, earliest man, so naked to the elements and to deadly enemies, should have existed in a state of constant shock. We find him instead the only lighthearted being in a deadly serious universe.... He alone, with childish carelessness, tinkered and played, and exerted himself more in the pursuit of superfluities than of necessities. Yet the tinkering and playing, and the fascination with the nonessential, were a chief source of the inventiveness which enabled man to prevail over better-equipped and more-purposeful animals.” MenShouldStatesUniverseAnimalEnemySeriousSourceElementsShould HaveConstantPursuitNakedChiefsShockOddsFascinationCarelessnessInventivenessTinkering Author:Eric Hoffer
“People are complex, and I think it's a huge element of what I do, because you have to balance out the fact that you talk about quite serious things with a sense of irony and tongue-in-cheek humor. That's my personality as well.” PeopleThinkingWellsFactsSeriousHugePersonalityBalanceElementsComplexesTongueIronyCheeksSerious ThingsTongue In Cheek Author:Marina and the Diamonds
“Comedy is the result of what's happening, not what people are doing. Because if people are doing comedy. It's embarrassing. The individual elements have to be straight-faced, serious, realistic with a firm basis. What makes it comedy is a somewhat shifted way to put it together.” PeopleIfsWayTogetherIndividualResultsComedySeriousElementsHappeningsBasesFirmRealisticEmbarrassing Author:Christoph Waltz