You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme… — Chris Corrigan Copy Share Image
What I do is give Ennio Morricone suggestions and describe to him my characters, and then, quite often, he'll possibly write five… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
You don't choose your themes; they choose you. The meaning of your stories will rise out of your deepest longings, often out… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo - there's a common theme. None of these companies ever sold. By staying independent, they were able to… — Jan Koum Copy Share Image
I'm very surprised at Carol didn't get a best picture. Todd Haynes is an Academy darling, his period pieces are nothing short… — Bun B Copy Share Image
You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I never have a clear goal or a theme when it comes to writing an album. — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
It is what makes conscious of the conditions and laws of observing which applied in this manner become a theme on its… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.… — Michel Legrand Copy Share Image
Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
I think the power of the short film is incredibly underrated. It is way easier to get someone to watch a 15-minute… — Nicholas Ozeki Copy Share Image
If I couldn't be a fiction writer, I would be a roller coaster designer for theme parks — Mike Wells Copy Share Image
I thought of the structure as musical. The first piece, for instance, contains the names/subject matter of every person to come in… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
With all the weird surroundings of outer space the basic underlying theme of the show is a philosophical approach to man's relationship… — Jeffrey Hunter Copy Share Image
I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better time, consciousness… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael,… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
I'm not that sort of writer where I can restrict myself to a theme, just in case nothing good comes of it. — Joe Lycett Copy Share Image
Most horror films fail to scare me. I think The Ring plays more as a psychological thriller. It's smarter, there's more character… — Martin Henderson Copy Share Image
The situation is not good with the record companies. It's just not working out, so I don't plan to record until it's… — Irene Cara Copy Share Image
My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality ?' Many of my stories and novels deal with psychotic states or drug-induced… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, is a little like wood carving. You find the lump of tree (the big central theme that gets you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Finally, to the theme of the respiratory chain, it is especially noteworthy that David Kellin's chemically simple view of the respiratory chain… — Peter D. Mitchell Copy Share Image
The recurring theme of all religions is a sympathy, empathy, connection, capacity between the human and the divine - that we were… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
