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“That is the theme of the Million Mom March: 'I don't need a brain - I've got a womb'.”

Needs Brain Millions Mom Theme March Womb Second Ammendment

“We spend more time at cinemas, theaters, art galleries and theme parks than we do at churches, and they have become our new cathedrals. We can spend hours at any of these places of entertainment but if church service goes on too long we get impatient.”

Ifs Long Art Hours Church Goes On Theater Entertainment Cinema Parks Theme More Time Impatient Gallery Cathedrals Art Galleries Theme Parks Church Service

Author:Michael Huffington

“My theme song is always: "Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them."”

Song Pay Attention Pay Attention Theme Viewers

Author:Anne Sweeney

“I think music is just a wonderful ingredient that helps us understand a scene better. And certainly you can overuse music, and you can use the wrong music. I probably have been guilty of these things over time. But if you use music correctly as a friend of the theme, a friend of the narrative, ou can lend some terrific connective tissue to a film.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Helping Use Film Wonderful Scene Music Is Guilty Narrative Theme Ingredients Terrific Tissues

Author:Jonathan Demme

“Everyone's always interested in a dark theme, especially when there's humor connected to it. It seems like that helps, if that's an integral and organic part of the whole story.”

Ifs Whole Helping Stories Seems Dark Connected Theme

Author:Robert De Niro

“Whatever is being investigated, created or produced now, in movies or TV, needs to consider the context in which it is being distributed. It's not a vacuum. There are certain universal themes of love, conflict, loyalty or family that are everlasting and that need to be presented in a way that makes it feel relevant, even if it's a period piece. You need to consider what context that film, that story and those characters are being seen in.”

Ifs Way Needs Feels Character Stories Film Certain Pieces Tvs Periods Conflict Universal Loyalty Theme Relevant Everlasting Vacuums Universal Themes

Author:J. J. Abrams

“I've always been interested in themes of memory, paranoia, and revenge.”

Memories Revenge Theme Paranoia

Author:Jonathan Nolan

“I come from a musical family. Mom was a piano teacher for a large portion of her life, and Dad is a saxophone hobbyist who grew up in England during the heyday of Tubby Hayes and Ronnie Scott. I started taking piano lessons from my Mom, but it's too easy to slack off with your parent, so she passed me on to a friend of hers, where I got more motivated to play music by playing pop hits and TV themes. I did some classical training, but I was always more into the really thematic stuff.”

Play Easy Stuff Parent Teacher Tvs Grew Mom Dad Lessons Grew Up Training England Musical My Mom Pops Piano Theme Motivated Portions Saxophone Piano Lesson Thematic Heyday Piano Teachers

Author:Gerard Cox

“I think the power of the short film is incredibly underrated. It is way easier to get someone to watch a 15-minute film then a full-length feature. In those 15 minutes you have the opportunity to express your voice as an artist and hopefully connect with your audience. If you are trying to be a first time feature director then a short film that demonstrates you have a grasp on the themes and concepts of the movie you want to direct is a no-brainer. Whether they are collaborators or potential investors, filmmaking is a visual art form so you obviously need visuals to show them!”

“I grew up in a very loving middle class family. My parents were educators. I'm not even the first PhD in my family. They tried to shield me, just as other parents in my neighborhood tried to shield their children. But you knew there was a reason that you couldn't go to that theme park or to a movie theater or to a hamburger stand. They couldn't shield you completely. What they did though was they never let it be an excuse for not achieving, and they always said racism is somebody else's problem, not yours. They tried in that way not to make us bitter about Birmingham.”

“The thing that I think a director has to have in order to make a movie really work, and to certainly make a film that feels personal, which I hope this one does, is that you have to have a sense of the feeling that you want to create in people, the tone which you want to tell the story, and the basic themes you want to come out. You can't compromise on those because you are then not making the movie that you are going to be good at telling.”

People Thinking Want Feels Doe Stories Feelings Film Order Directors Be Good Compromise Tone Theme

Author:George Nolfi

“A central theme of all about love is that from childhood into adulthood we are often taught misguided and false assumptions about the nature of love. Perhaps the most common false assumption about love is that love means we will not be challenged or changed.”

Mean Love Is Common Childhood Changed Taught Assumption Theme Adulthood Misguided Love Means False Assumptions

Author:Bell Hooks

“Jokes do finish themselves. I really do see them as ongoing conversations about personal themes that I ruminate on.”

Conversation Jokes Theme Ongoing

Author:Marc Maron

“I realized that if I wanted to truly talk about vastness and the sublime and scale and the West - recurrent themes in my overall work - I needed to engage with the vast ocean that is Los Angeles.”

Ifs Wanted Needed Ocean West I Realized Scales Theme Los Angeles Sublime Vastness Vast Ocean

Author:Michael Light

“Some actors pride themselves on disappearing into a role. I'm into the game because I like experiencing and exploring themes, so I put a lot of myself into the person.”

Persons Actors Games Roles Pride Disappear Theme Exploring

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“There is no doubt that the issue of race is always present in American politics and in the politics of any multiracial society. There is also no doubt that for some people it is an element in the manifested hostility to Obama. But I don't think it is the major theme at all. Obama is right when he reminds people: By the way, I was black before the election.”

People Thinking Way Black Race Issues Doubt Elements Majors Election Theme No Doubt American Politics Hostility Multiracial

Author:Al Gore

“Most of my bits are long stream-of-consciousness- type things, and when I'm doing them onstage, other places to take the theme or idea will hit me, and I just go with it.”

Long Ideas Bits Consciousness Type Streams Theme Stream Of Consciousness

Author:Joe Rogan

“My first work in comics had an Adult theme and I had to create a nom du plume to separate that work and my Children's entertainment.”

Firsts Children Adults Entertainment My Children Theme

Author:Holly Golightly

“I want to write about spiders. To me, this is the one theme that cuts right across and scares just about everybody. Spiders, to me, are just about the most horrible, awful things that I can think about. I think everyone is afraid of spiders.”

Thinking Want Writing I Can Cutting Horrible Awful Theme Scare Spiders

Author:Stephen King

“There have been so many stories about alcoholism and drugs. Eating disorders are also a form of abuse, but rarely a theme in feature films that aren't documentaries.”

Has Beens Stories Film Form Drug Eating Abuse Features Theme Disorder Documentaries Alcoholism Eating Disorder

Author:Sanna Lenken

“Sci-fi is often a metaphor. I think it's more the themes and questions that science fiction raises rather than the exact predictions that should guide us.”

Thinking Should Fiction Raises Science Fiction Metaphor Guides Theme Sci Fi Predictions

Author:Peter Singer

“Death is a big theme in the book, illness. What is that? It's a fact that human beings - no matter who they are, no matter how healthy or strong or beautiful they are - are going to age and become weak and ugly by a certain standard, and die. And I think that's a terrifying idea for people to get their minds around.”

People Thinking Mind Humans Book Ideas Matter Facts Bigs Age Beautiful Certain Dies Strong Human Beings Healthy Standards Weak Illness Ugly Theme

Author:Mary Gaitskill

“Comedy is grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like "my wife shops too much", or "kids today", all those old-fashioned themes - or, if it's deeper, and somewhat more thoughtful, about social imbalance and inequities, and the folly of human behavior. It's usually a complaint.”

“As well as Japanese animation, technology has a huge influence on Japanese society, and also Japanese novels. It's because before, people tended to think that ideology or religion were the things that actually changed people, but it's been proven that that's not the case. Technology has been proven to be the thing that's actually changing people. So in that sense, it's become a theme in Japanese culture.”

People Thinking Wells Has Beens Culture Cases Technology Novel Influence Changed Huge Ideology Theme Proven Animation Japanese Culture Japanese Animation

Author:Mamoru Oshii

“The theme that runs through all my books is connection. Connection - physical and non-physical - with other humans, and connection with nature are necessary for our well-being. Without it, we are depressed, lonely, and fail to thrive.”

Humans Wells Book Running Failing Lonely Connections Well Being Theme Thrive

Author:Mary Alice Monroe

“Southern writing is regional: it includes dialect, settings, and cultural traditions from that region. However the themes and story conflicts are universal. My challenge is to write regional fiction without falling into the trap of nostalgia. There are important issues facing the south that I believe should be raised in the stories to make them contemporary, believable, and relevant to today's readers.”

“I'll have a sentence in my head that's kind of beautiful and interesting, but I'm not sure why or where it's coming from. So it's kind of funny, because when people point out patterns or themes, it's the exact opposite of my film school experience.”

People Kind School Beautiful Film Interesting Opposites Patterns Sentences Not Sure Theme Film School School Experience

Author:Don Hertzfeldt

“I'd prefer people read about Churchill and how he wasn't overwhelmed by Nazi Germany. Amazing; that the morale of a country rested on one person's shoulders. Extraordinary people carried that country through its darkest hours; truly inspirational. I suppose that's my theme. Whether it's a biography or a movie; whether it's fictional or true, I'm inspired by people doing great things.”

People Inspirational Persons Country Hours Extraordinary Inspired Shoulders Great Things Germany Theme Nazi Biographies Overwhelmed Ordinary People Morale Nazi Germany Darkest Hour

Author:Larry Ellison

“I've always been a writer who tackles complex themes and risky subjects - I write about the things that people think but never say aloud.”

People Thinking Writing Subjects Complexes Theme

Author:Jillian Medoff

“In most of my films I write the music into the script. I'm listening to songs and lyrics that empower the themes of the film. There's a lot of Indigenous music that has not been heard widely and I love the idea of giving that music to the rest of the world.”

World Giving Writing Ideas Film Song Heard Listening Scripts Theme Empowering Indigenous

Author:Warwick Thornton

“I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of the falsification of this real world. That is my theme.”

World Real Speak Civilization Victim Currents Symbols Theme Real World Falsification Commercialization

Author:Ernesto Cardenal

“Drawing from art history and mythology allows me to connect with viewers in a familiar, yet loose visual framework. Blending disparate histories and themes can give the overall presentation a recognizable, yet unique flavor.”

Giving Art Unique Drawing Mythology Familiar Theme Visuals Viewers Flavor Framework Presentation Art History

Author:John Dyer Baizley

“The main trend with the theme episodes is that anywhere there is a misconception about the way the physical world works, we're finding fertile material. Whether it's in a phrase like "going over like a lead balloon" or "a needle in a haystack," or tackling movie myths or even a genre, like MacGyver or James Bond, we're finding that all these things can lead to people believing the world works in a certain way. It might not be correct, but we can test out if it's true.”

People Ifs World Way Believe Might Certain Materials Findings Tests Myth Genre Phrases Theme Trends Episodes Needles Misconception Fertile Balloons Tackling Macgyver Needle In A Haystack

Author:Adam Savage

“So much of the writing is not conscious, in the sense that it's not calculated. I remember in film school we had so many studies with big fancy words where you could dissect a movie and make charts of all of the characters' complicated inner relations and themes and what does this mean? And it's overwhelming as a student. It's great for a student, but as a writer, it's paralyzing.”

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Author:Don Hertzfeldt

“It's the universal feeling that we all are alone - that we're all different. I think the movie's one resounding theme is that everybody feels the same, and we're all alone together. Some people come up to me on the street and thank me for helping them get through their teen years.”

People Thinking Feels Years Different Helping Feelings Together Streets Universal Come Up Theme All Alone

Author:Molly Ringwald

“Over the years I've never written or made movies about political themes 'cause while they do have current critical importance, in the large, large scheme of things, only the big questions matter and the answers to those big questions are very, very depressing.”

Years Made Matter Bigs Political Causes Answers Written Importance Currents Critical Theme Schemes Depressing Big Questions Very Depressing

Author:Woody Allen

“I never have a thematic intention at the outset. The story informs the theme for me rather than the other way around. But as it happens... this is, at least to a degree, about getting old and the rapid passage of our lives.”

Way Stories Happens Our Lives Degrees Intention Theme Passages Getting Old Rapids Thematic

Author:Stephen King

“Making a film is like making a mixtape. You're collecting all this stuff and putting your favorite stuff into it: you have actors that you like, characters that you're interested in, moments you want to explore, themes you want to deal with, music that you want to put in. It's a pastiche of all these things that deal with how you see the world. You're just trying to make a love letter, a gift.”

World Want Trying Moments Character Film Actors Stuff Deals Letters Theme Collecting Your Favorite Love Letter Mixtapes Pastiche

Author:Derek Cianfrance

“I'm always loath to make generalizations about what is for children and what isn't. Certainly children's literature as a genre has some restrictions, so certain things will never pop up in a Snicket book. But I didn't know anything about writing for children when I started - this is the theme of naïveté creeping up on us once more - and I sort of still don't, and I'm happy that adults are reading them as well as children.”

Knows Writing Wells Children Stills Book Certain Reading Literature Adults Pops Genre Theme Restriction Generalization Vets Children's Literature Snicket

Author:Daniel Handler

“To hold silence and to be silenced are two very different experiences. And so another theme emerges, that of light and shadow. When we share our voice, who benefits? When we withhold, who benefits? And what are the consequences and costs of both?”

Two Different Light Voice Silence Share Cost Benefits Shadow Consequence Theme Different Experiences Light And Shadow

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“We find our voice, we lose our voice, we retrieve it, honor it, and hopefully, learn how to share it with others and stand in the center of our power. Translation is a theme. Fear and courage are a theme.”

Voice Loses Share Honor Hopefully Theme Translations Fear And Courage

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“One thing it makes me realize is just how similar we all are, around the globe. The details may be different, but every human heart is touched by themes like hope, comfort and mercy.”

Humans Heart May Different Realizing One Thing Comfort Mercy Details Theme Touched Globes Human Heart

Author:Matt Redman

“Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.”

Evil Horror Ancient Theme Hiding Halloween Happy Halloween

Author:John Carpenter

“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained.”

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“Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.”

Ifs Looks Film Evil Triumph Theme Heroism Recurring Good Over Evil Recurring Themes

Author:Salman Khan

“At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold.”

People World Moving Wife Broken Ties Theme Farmers Upside Down Hometown Homesick

Author:John Gould

“Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not really going anywhere; that the Force which controls its measured eccentricities hasn't got anything special in mind. If he broods on this somber theme long enough he gets the doleful idea that the laughing children on a merry-go-round or the thin, fine hands of a lady's watch are revolving more purposely than he is.”

Source: Writings and Drawings

“Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.”

Want Writing Book Sometimes Character Life Is Novel Our Lives Theme Principal

Book:Diary, 1928-1957

Source: Diary, 1928-1957

“Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.”

Wells Sex Grief Events Emotional And Love Disappear Theme Surround Grief And Death Sex And Love

Author:Thomas Lynch

“To express dynamic motion through a static moment became for me limited and unsatisfactory. The basic idea was to liberate myself from this old concept and arrive at an image in which the spectator could feel the beauty of a fourth dimension, which lies much more between moments than within a moment. In music one remembers never one tone, but a melody, a theme, a movement. In dance, never a moment, but again the beauty of a movement in time and space.”

Feels Ideas Moments Remember Lying Space Movement Concepts Tone Theme Dimensions Melody Fourth Time And Space Spectators Static

Author:Ernst Haas

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