Theme Quotes - Page 32

• People don't think their dreams amount to much, but when I ask them to examine them for common themes, they surprise themselves at how accurate they are! They see that their dreams have value.

  Henry Reed

  Dream, Thinking, People

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• 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.

  John Gould

  Moving, Ties, People

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• 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.

  James Thurber

  Children, Men, Ideas

  James Thurber (1996). “Writings and Drawings”, Library of America

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• 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.

  Julien Green

  Book, Character, Writing

  Julien Green (1964). “Diary, 1928-1957”, London, Collins

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• 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.

  Thomas Lynch

  Sex, Grief, Emotional

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• If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories.

  Douglas Kennedy

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Past, Ideas

  Douglas Kennedy (2010). “The Pursuit of Happiness: A Novel”, p.583, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Ernst Haas

  Lying, Ideas, Space

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• The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.

  George Leonard

  Lying, Discovery, Essence

  George Leonard (1992). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment”, p.69, Penguin

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• Above these universal themes Truth Will Set U Free is also a song composed for those who were born gay. I am a straight man so I do not profess to understand or know what a LGBT person experiences but I do recognize injustice when I see it.

  Corey Hart

  Song, Gay, Men

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• This became Delacroix 's theme: that the achievements of the spirit all that a great library contained were the result of a state of society so delicately balanced that at the least touch they would be crushed beneath an avalanche of pent-up animal forces.

  Kenneth Clark

  Animal, Achievement, Library

  Kenneth Clark (1973). “The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art”

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• A dreamer of the common dreams, A fisher in familiar streams, He chased the transitory gleams That all pursue; But on his lips the eternal themes Again were new.

  William Watson

  Dream, Gleam, Lips

  Sir William Watson, John Alfred Spender (1905). “The Poems of William Watson”

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• For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.

  Mark Webber

  Writing, Process, Filmmaking

  Source: www.lasplash.com

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• I wanted to make a film about anorexia. I thought about it for a long time, but then gave up on this idea as I felt that this theme would be so hermetic and closed that it would not reach an audience. However, the plot about the character of Olga and the idea that a body has a lot of different meanings were still present in my mind.

  Malgorzata Szumowska

  Character, Ideas, Long

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The trouble is that when you read criticisms about the other films that I've made you get the impression that they're all about themes, or problems, or ideas. But those are actually things that develop out of characters, out of images and out of other things. These more abstract things develop while working on the material, and out of it. It's not a theoretical exercise from the outset.

  Michael Haneke

  Character, Exercise, Ideas

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I genuinely was just such a fan of the books. When I heard that this was on the cards, I've got to do this; I've got to get involved with this. I'm such a Philip Pullman fan and actually his philosophies, morals and the way he looks at the world. He does what he does brilliantly as a writer. He writes children's stories with major adult themes and major ideas about making the right choices.

  Daniel Craig

  Children, Philosophy, Book

  "Daniel Craig Is Lord Asriel in The Golden Compass". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. December 4, 2007.

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• You can access that on many levels and the human spirit and the human mind responds to those themes because they recognise the veracity of them. That they are real things. Sometimes it even goes beyond logic, it's just a sense of something.

  Mel Gibson

  Real, Mind, Levels

  "Apocalypto - Mel Gibson interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I do like to make films with a political theme, but sometimes it's nice simply to make people laugh. That's the hardest thing to do in fact.

  Ridley Scott

  Nice, People, Laughing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan.

  Ridley Scott

  Intellectual, Different, Masters

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There are themes that somehow stir me and that I find very interesting. They're themes that deal with leadership, the nature of bravery and courage, and how to define those.

  Stephen Lang

  Interesting, Bravery, Deals

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Sex, love and death are universal and timeless dramatic themes.

  Julia Ormond

  Sex, Dramatic, Love And Death

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The only way I know as a director is to figure out what the film is about. And out of the theme and the sense of what the film is about, all those decisions start to make sense. But to find that truth within it, you have to limit your possibilities and limit your choices. That's where this visual language grows out of.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Choices, Decision, Limits

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. November 21, 2006.

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• I'd say the biggest relationship is the repetition of certain themes. I don't want to say "topics," but certain points of interest.

  James Salter

  Want, Topics, Certain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I often have a theme in mind when I'm starting. I know that I want everything to be in a world of, say, evolution, or guilt.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Mind, Guilt, World

  "'Synecdoche, New York' Director Charlie Kaufman". Interview with Howard Feinstein, www.indiewire.com. October 24, 2008.

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• As I'm writing, I start to see connections, and themes I didn't see, and that sparks other things. So then I go back and rewrite things or alter them. It's a combination of intuition and a lot of finessing. It becomes a combination of the rational and the irrational.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Writing, Intuition, Connections

  "'Synecdoche, New York' Director Charlie Kaufman'". Interview with Howard Feinstein, www.indiewire.com. October 24, 2008.

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• I think that critiquing the myths of our society and helping people find their way through them is a very important thing. It's a theme that goes through all of my work.

  Sam Keen

  Thinking, People, Important

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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