#subject matter

If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#amount #anything #chaotic #choices #days

I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important. ↗

— Robert Wise

#his #i #i think #important #know

I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing. ↗

— Ed Harris

#chose #films #i #intriguing #made

I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence. ↗

— Bernadette Devlin

#bar #bored #customers #denied #got

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#excite #irrespective #matter #me #paintings

I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#comic #comic strips #gas #i #interesting

'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#good #good life #itself #life #luxury

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#matter #more #much #photographer #subject

To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different. ↗

— Jerry Springer

#even #go #least #matter #news

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#go #matter #modern #most #outside