Themes Quotes

236 quotes by 216 authors

There's something in the Zeitgeist now. A lot of [film] scripts I get have these very dark themes, a cornucopia of dysfunction. You know, Jane… — Christine Vachon
Capote, of course, addressed very similar themes to Good Night and Good Luck. Both films are about determined journalists defying obstacles in a relentless pursuit… — Jon Stewart
I like the stories with the historical themes. — Sarah Sutton
I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know… — Henry David Thoreau
I wrote 'Turn Your Radio On' in 1937, and it was published in 1938. At this time radio was relatively new to the rural people,… — Albert E. Brumley
I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and… — Bo Burnham
I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life. — Dani Shapiro
Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry..about the country, the suburbs and the seaside... then there come's love... and increasingly; the fear… — John Betjeman
I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing. — Joyce Tenneson
The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of… — Clarence Day
I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what… — Ernest Gaines
If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and… — Anthony Burgess
America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is… — Don DeLillo
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story… — John Ortberg
The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked… — Ian Rankin
The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012. — Steven Rattner
Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your… — William Zinsser
Along the way I have been able to choose some themes which ask questions - not necessarily force a message on anyone, but at least… — Julie Walters
The fourth paradigm forces us at every point to discern between the creationally valid and the sinfully perverse and thus confronts us with a never-ending… — Albert M. Wolters
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… — Mike Leigh

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