#themes

We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#forget #heritage #includes #nights #our

Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#almost #automatically #because #characters #come

Once we start hitting lyrical themes that can whack you from all these different perspectives, we know we're onto something special. ↗

— Chester Bennington

#different perspectives #hitting #know #lyrical #once

Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously. ↗

— Anne Dudley

#developing #doing #ends #film #got

I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced so much violence that I thought I could express my outrage best with music. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#could #experienced #express #i #ii

I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation. ↗

— David Guterson

#generation #i #interested #themes

Most horror films fail to scare me. I think "The Ring" plays more as a psychological thriller. It's smarter, there's more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper. ↗

— Martin Henderson

#character development #deeper #development #explored #fail

I understand now why Hillary Clinton always wore navy blue pantsuits. Remember, for four years? If you have one or two themes, then you have the same shoes, the same bag. Otherwise, it's a nightmare. ↗

— Amy Klobuchar

#bag #blue #clinton #four #hillary

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 place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across. ↗

— Mike Leigh

#accidents #across #also #characters #film

There are a number of parallels between the slums of Brazil and those found in my hometown, Karachi. The dichotomy that exists in Brazil is uncannily similar to that found in Pakistan, and I hope to one day make a film that follows similar themes. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#brazil #day #dichotomy #exists #film