Theme Quotes

698 quotes by 612 authors

I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to… — Callie Khouri
Recent studies have considered the detection of a spaceship visiting our parish of the galaxy. In my opinion that last thought should bring a blush… — Nigel Calder
I find I can't get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent that there are… — John Currin
Big media are all about the angle, the spin. Look to the overarching theme that runs through each and every news story. Be hip to… — Ilana Mercer
One of my themes is that there is good and evil in everyone. I was not out to make these guys heroes. I really don't… — William Friedkin
The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in… — Sufjan Stevens
The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and… — Eudora Welty
My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust. — Rian Johnson
I took part of Alan Silvestri's theme on the original [movie], which I really liked, and I pulled it into it new theme, which became… — Danny Elfman
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, who wrote it… — Mitchell Zuckoff
I love TV. I know all the theme songs from the shows I watch. I'm not one of those who'd rather be a movie star.… — Dana Hill
When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story. — Aaron McGruder
What can I but enumerate old themes? — William Butler Yeats
Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s pop, and sometimes… — Ryan Adams
Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some kind of feeling. I really take pride in that. — Yelawolf
The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this… — John Dewey
Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of… — Samuel Johnson
My wife loves Europe, but to me it's a bad day at a theme park. — Jay Leno
Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one… — Pablo Picasso

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