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“They say great themes make great novels”

Source: An artist is his own fault

“The images which the [press] photographer has filtered from reality, whether particular events or the anguish of human reactions to them, already bear a stamp of authenticity which the photographer is powerless to alter by one jot or tittle; the meaning of the objects, by a process of purification, itself becomes the theme of the work.”

Humans Reality Process Events Objects Particular Bears Presses Photographer Reactions Authenticity Theme Anguish Powerless Stamps Purification

Author:Yukio Mishima

“I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.”

Ideas Film Subjects Cameras Instruments Impact Theme

Book:Jean Renoir: essays, conversations, and reviews

Source: Jean Renoir: essays, conversations, and reviews

“There are only so many ways to get people to go see stand-up, that it really is about the product; it's not so much about the theme of the show.”

People Way Shows Products Theme

Author:Greg Behrendt

“There is never a specific theme or anything I have interest in. Really, I make decisions based on decisions that are made by other people and whatever is presented to me, and I do it on a first come, first serve basis, and go from there.”

People Firsts Made Interest Decision Bases Theme

Author:Colin Hanks

“The book is about zombies, in that it is the over-arching theme, but what's going on is the story of these people and how these survivors deal. I think that's so much more of an interesting story, and that's what really gets and hooks these readers into the book and the show. It's a mix of fans of drama, fans of AMC, fans of horror and fans of Frank [Darabont]. It's a lot of people just coming together and realizing a genre doesn't have to be fixed in one specific detail.”

People Thinking Book Stories Shows Together Realizing Interesting Deals Fans Reader Drama Horror Details Genre Fixed Theme Survivor Frank Hook Zombie Coming Together Interesting Stories

Author:Steven Yeun

“I just felt like, you know, I read a lot of scripts out in L.A., out here in the industry and I just felt like this film was just being genuine. I just felt like it had really great characters. And all the three different characters have completely different stories and they're all kind of intertwined together thematically. So I just thought it had great characters, great themes”

“Certain things are done intentionally opposite - like there's no sound at the end or synthesizers or all that stuff. Anything that drowns the movie, no. Anything that makes you sit up and watch it, yes. So, some are expecting a very sad theme going on.”

Ends Done Certain Stuff Sound Watches Opposites Theme Expecting Very Sad Synthesizers

Author:A. R. Rahman

“There were basically three themes. One was the sun theme which is the guitar when he'd get sun on his leg and it comes again in the end. And there's of course the lullaby which Dido sang, "If I Rise." And then there's this driving guitar which is the motivation theme.”

Ifs Ends Motivation Three Courses Sun Guitar Legs Driving Theme Lullaby Dido

Author:A. R. Rahman

“I love big ensemble shows where there are a lot of things going on and you have to really pay attention because there's a lot of nuanced work and universal themes are being explored.”

Shows Bigs Pay Attention Universal Pay Attention Theme Ensemble Universal Themes

Author:Janina Gavankar

“I had seen "Force Majeure" and I just love that movie so much. And I really wanted to artistically give a little hello to the filmmakers, and that kind of back and forth dialogue between artists that say, "I loved your movie. I was influenced by your movie. If I didn't have this job, I wouldn't be thinking of that. Do my TV show and then one day I'll make a movie where I can play with some of the visual themes in "Force Majeure."”

Ifs Thinking Giving Kind Littles I Can Play Shows Wanted Jobs Artist Force Tvs One Day Dialogue Filmmaker Theme Visuals Tv Shows Hello Back And Forth I Loved You

Author:Jill Soloway

“Major theme of the book ["Hotels of North America"], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the digital sphere, and/or what is the effect of it on self in a prolonged interaction.”

Book Self America Views Effects Majors Point Of View Theme Hotel Digital Spheres Interaction Persona North America

Author:Rick Moody

“My reading was good enough to play big-band charts, but I ran into trouble with Claude (Thornhill)'s theme song "Snowfall," which had a repeating bass line in D-flat that was very difficult for me to finger using my self-taught technique. I spent one morning figuring out an alternate fingering, and that started me on the way to learning a better use of the fingerboard.”

Way Self Enough Play Use Bigs Song Reading Difficult Lines Morning Trouble Taught Band Fingers Technique Ran Theme Flats Good Enough Bass Self Taught Snowfall Fingerboard

Author:Bill Crow

“I believe that the medium of photography prevails entirely as an act of faith in the souls of those who love and practice it. And so every photograph becomes another subtle variation on the theme of the medium itself.”

Believe Soul I Believe Practice Photography Photograph Mediums Theme Subtle Variation

Author:Ralph Gibson

“Aesthetics does not exist for the camera as an isolated entity. Aesthetics, in fact, is inseparable from the purpose of the photographer and the use he makes of his theme. When photography fails... it is usually because a false separation has been imposed on form and content.”

Doe Has Beens Facts Use Form Purpose Failing Photography Cameras Photographer Separation Theme Isolated Entity Aesthetics Inseparable

Author:Sid Grossman

“My work has no theme. I don't care if my photographs get published, and I have no interest in the news. But the invasion of Prague was not news, it was my life.”

Ifs Care Interest News Photograph Don't Care I Don't Care Theme Invasion Prague

Author:Josef Koudelka

“One of my basic feelings is that the mind, and the heart alike, of the photographer must be dedicated to the glory, the magic, and the mystery of light. The mystery of time, the magic of light, the enigma of reality - and their interrelationships - are my constant themes and preoccupations.”

Mind Heart Feelings Reality Light Magic Mystery Glory Constant Photographer Theme Dedicated Preoccupation Enigma

Book:Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye

Source: Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye

“I focus on details, either of the body, or of objects that represent gender, sexuality, and other themes.”

Body Focus Objects Details Gender Sexuality Theme

Author:Lorna Simpson

“At least to look back over their own lives, as I have looked back over mine, for certain themes and patterns and signals that are so easy to miss when you're caught up in the process of living them. If God speaks to us at all other than through such official channels as the Bible and the church, then I think he speaks to us largely through what happens to us, so listen to what has happened to you-for the sound, above all else, of his voice.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Happens Certain Speak Easy Process Sound Voice Church Happened Missing Mines Patterns Caught Officials Theme Caught Up Signals

Author:Frederick Buechner

“When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises.”

Thinking Looks Novel Finished Odd Theme Guise

Author:Richard Russo

“You have to live with your product, you have to know it through and through, you have to look at it, understand it, love it then, and only then, you can crystallize in one clear thought, one single theme, what must be conveyed about the product to the consumer.”

Knows Looks Clear Products Consumers Theme

Author:William Bernbach

“All music is rehash. There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. Try to tell the kids in the Seventies who were screaming to the Bee Gees that their music was just The Beatles redone. There is nothing wrong with the Bee Gees.”

Trying Kids Music Is Notes Theme Bees Seventies Variation Bee Gees

Author:John Lennon

“... the job [at the Manhattan Institute] gives me a platform where I can focus on the themes that I explored in both Gusher of Lies and Power Hungry: that the myths about "green" energy are largely just that, myths; that hydrocarbons are here to stay; and that if we are going to pursue the best "no regrets" policy with regard to energy, then we should be avidly promoting natural gas and nuclear energy.”

“I think that my music is really honest and I think I have something to say. The world revolves around so much negativity that I feel we really need something positive right now. I think people need to be encouraged to strive after those things that seem impossible. That is one of the common themes that runs through my record.”

People Thinking World Needs Feels Seems Running Common Records Impossible Honest Right Now Music Is Strive Theme Negativity Be Encouraged

Author:Amanda Stott

“Usually I will hear a sample, think of a theme and then it will take me a couple of days to write down some lyrics. Then I will decide that I hate those lyrics and rewrite. Then I will change all the music around. Then I will rewrite all the lyrics again. I am a bit of a perfectionist although you would never know it because all my songs are like chopped up and @#$%& up, but you see that's on purpose.”

Thinking Knows Writing Purpose Hate Song Bits Couple I Hate Theme Take Me Perfectionist Sample

Author:Princess Superstar

“What I find interesting and heartening, though, is that there does seem to be a shift in the subject matter being written about by women that is doing well in the culture. We're seeing more women writing dystopian fiction, more women writing novels set post-apocalyptic settings, subjects and themes that used to be dominated by men.”

“I'm not conscious of my own themes as I write first drafts, no, and in fact, I work hard to stay in that unconscious space and not ask myself what the novel is about or what my metaphors might mean because then, I think, you're just dead in the water.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Mean Hard Facts Might Asks Water My Own Space Novel Hard Work Conscious Metaphor Theme Unconscious

Author:Laurie Foos

“Self love is a great recurring theme, the headwaters that feed my ability to be the best version of myself in every other aspect of my life. Self worth sets the standard that life meets.”

Self Ability Love Is Self Love Standards Aspect Self Worth Versions Theme Being The Best Recurring Recurring Themes

Author:Jewel

“I think in terms of the themes that I have worked on most is establishing questions of race in the context of Latin America. This is a theme that makes uncomfortable a lot of people, and it obviously makes the Latin American Left uncomfortable.”

People Thinking America Left Term Race Uncomfortable Theme Latin Latin America Latin American

Author:Bocafloja

“I believe in terms of the work that I do, in establishing dialogue about race relations in Latin America, steps on one of the most relevant themes today.”

Believe Today America I Believe Term Race Steps Relation I Believe In Dialogue Theme Latin Relevant Race Relations Latin America

Author:Bocafloja

“While I like people, I do also like being alone in a room and seeing what you can do with a particular theme or subject.”

People Can Do Rooms Seeing Subjects Particular Theme Like Being Alone

Author:Dean Koontz

“I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing.”

Trying Deals Things To Do Theme Bad Things

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“There's always that moment when you realize what it's going to be. You might have an overarching theme and you need to fill in the blanks - and then there's this "Aha" moment when you see where it's going. That's the most satisfying part of writing.”

Needs Writing Moments Might Realizing Theme That Moment Satisfying Be You Aha Moment

Author:Rosanne Cash

“Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody. I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly. So I write melodies-thirty, forty, fifty-then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide. That happened one time with Jacques Demy for the duo of the twins [in Les demoiselles de Rochefort]: I went to his house in Noirmoutier to play 35 possible themes for him.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Writing Two Play Film Three Asks House Happened Strange Needed Directors Casts Thirty Theme Fifty Forty Melody One Time Twins Principal Duos

Author:Michel Legrand

“I'm always thinking about the next record. I've got like 20 different themes and then I'll scratch the themes. It's a learning process.”

Thinking Different Next Process Records Theme Scratches Learning Process Always Thinking

Author:Jason Mraz

“I first heard music while in the womb. My mom tells me she played Tubular Bells with the headphones against her stomach all the time. A bit disturbing as I believe that is the theme to The Exorcist. Maybe she thought she was having Satan's baby.”

Firsts Believe I Believe Bits Heard Baby Mom My Mom Satan Theme Stomach Bells Womb Disturbing Headphones Exorcist

Author:Venetian Snares

“Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are echoes of the body's music. It is the body's vibrations which ripple from the fingers. And the mystery of the withheld theme, known to jazz musicians alone, is like the mystery of our secret life. We give to others only peripheral improvisations.”

Giving Body Secret Known Mystery Musician Breaths Jazz Fingers Theme Strings Echoes Vibrations Jazz Music Improvisation Ripple Secret Life Brass Jazz Musician

Author:Anais Nin

“Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.”

Able Film Critics Theme Unifying

Book:John Huston: Interviews

Source: John Huston: Interviews

“Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.”

Made Pieces Musician Theme Spokes Misunderstood Rapture Rachmaninoff Paganini

Author:Joni Mitchell

“If somebody asks me about the themes of something I'm working on, I never have any idea what the themes are. . . . Somebody tells me the themes later. I sort of try to avoid developing themes. I want to just keep it a little bit more abstract. But then, what ends up happening is, they say, 'Well, I see a lot here that you did before, and it's connected to this other movie you did,' and . . . that almost seems like something I don't quite choose. It chooses me.”

Ifs Want Trying Wells Littles Ideas Ends Seems Asks Bits Little Bit Happenings Connected Developing Ask Me Abstract Theme Like Something Choose Me

Author:Wes Anderson

“This week Disney opened its first ever theme park in China. More than ten thousand children showed up on opening day. And that was just to make the T-shirts.”

Firsts Children Week Thousand Ten China Opening Shirts Parks Theme T Shirt Theme Parks Opening Day

Author:Conan O'Brien

“I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.”

Morality Conversation Core Theme Privacy Apocalypse One Word Succession

Author:Francis Ford Coppola

“We are all souls, and what I have learnt so far is that while God is male, the souls created by Him are female, so I always had women as my theme, as they are dedicated to Him.”

Soul Female Males Theme Dedicated

Author:Kailash Kher

“I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing desk with a clean page, a new theme, and a mind awake.”

Writing Mind Found Study Four Wall Equal Pages Sitting Clean Awake Enjoyment Theme Desks Four Walls

Book:Irving's Works

Source: Irving's Works

“While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk, and then in octaves by the violins and violas, it is a melancholy and contemplative tune.”

Firsts Figures Lonely Originals Theme Tunes Melody Melancholy Violin Contemplative Prelude Viola

Author:Bear McCreary

“Ed Welch says that all counseling is a variation on a single theme: knowing and praying for the counselee. Of all the questions the counselor might ask, then, the central guiding question in the counselor's mind is, "How can I pray for you?”

Mind Might Asks Knowing Praying Theme I Pray Variation Counseling Counselor Praying For You

Author:James MacDonald

“Not a specific song. What I do maybe love above all about Nick Cave is how he's created this universe, this world, where there are all these characters and songs and themes. It's very unique, and I appreciate it. It's very hard to say that I have a specific favourite; I just actually love everything that he does.”

World Doe Hard Character Song Universe This World Unique Appreciate Theme Favourite Caves Maybe Love

Author:Mirel Wagner

“You could do much more in movies than you could on TV, and even movies were heavily censored. But in television, the areas of timorousness were fairly laid out. Race relations. Sex. Politics. There was a whole conglomeration of taboo themes. And even to date, though television has become a much freer medium, it's still far less free, far less creatively untrammeled than are the movies. They're infinitely more adult in that respect.”

Stills Whole Sex Race Television Tvs Adults Areas Relation Mediums Theme Race Relations Taboo Censored

Author:Rod Serling

“There's an aesthetic theme, which is cities at two o'clock in the morning. Not cities packed with people going out to clubs and dancing but desolate, empty streets. It's off-putting but there's a strange comfort to it as well, that desolate urban environment.”

People Wells Two Cities Morning Environment Streets Strange Comfort Empty Dancing Clubs Clock Theme Aesthetic Going Out Urban Desolate Empty Streets Urban Environment

Author:Moby

“Language is a theme in the whole book, no? I mean it ends with the title poem about words are all we have. I guess midrash makes sense. How does it change in the course of the sequence? Well, God is into No and into Stasis/Nouns. Adam and Eve, in order to be in this world (and get this world going) must choose verbs. Which is to gain sex but also to choose death and all else that goes with change. To choose becoming over being.”

World Wells Mean Doe Book Ends Whole Order Courses Language Sex This World Becoming Gains Make Sense Titles Theme Adam Sequence Verbs Adam And Eve Nouns Stasis

Author:Gregory Orr

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