“The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.” WholeCharacterFilmSpiritAccidentsThemeLocation Author:Mike Leigh
“If I can't find a theme, I can't make a film anyone else will feel. I can't laugh at intellectual humor. I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.” IfsFeelsHeartI CanEnoughStoriesFilmFunLaughingIntellectualThemeCorny Author:Walt Disney
“Room 10 [a short film she codirected with Andrea Buchanan] nailed my personal theme: love and choosing to stay in the room when the going gets tough.” FilmRoomsToughThemeShort FilmsAndreaGoing Gets Tough Author:Jennifer Aniston
“Before seeing Truffaut 's Small Change, I was afraid it was going to be one of those simple, natural films about childhood which I generally try to avoid I'm just not good enough to go to them. But this series of sketches on the general theme of the resilience of children turns out to be that rarity a poetic comedy that's really funny.” TryingChildrenEnoughFilmTurnsNaturalSimpleComedySeeingChildhoodSeriesResilienceThemePoeticGood EnoughNot Good EnoughRaritySmall Changes Book:When the lights go down Source: When the lights go down
“I think Bergman's films have eternal relevance, because they deal with the difficulty of personal relationships and lack of communication between people and religious aspirations and mortality, existential themes that will be relevant a thousand years from now. When many of the things that are successful and trendy today will have been long relegated to musty-looking antiques, his stuff will still be great.” PeopleThinkingYearsLongHas BeensStillsTodayFilmStuffReligiousDealsSuccessfulCommunicationThousandEternalDifficultyAspirationThemeMortalityRelevantExistentialThousand YearsRelevanceAntiquesPersonal RelationshipsTrendyBergmanLack Of Communication Author:Woody Allen