Quotes for All
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 tried. Whatever our place, it has been visited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new; but that is enough. … Read more
Human life is fiction’s only theme. Eudora Welty
The spirits are an age-old theme, a story from darkest history, and therefore a presentational anchor that can be used with many different magic tricks. Eugene Burger
There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me. Erykah Badu
A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories. Errol Morris
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 … Read more
I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of the falsification of this real world. That is my theme. Ernesto Cardenal
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 manliness really is. Ernest Gaines
To this day I over prepare. I draw storyboards for every scene – chicken scratches so crude that they amuse and horrify the crew. I send out shot lists, act out the scenes, and search for a theme that I can relate to. It’s my favorite time of the process. Eric Stoltz
The life’s work of Walt Disney and Ray Kroc had come full-circle, uniting in perfect synergy. McDonald’s began to sell its hamburgers and french fries at Disney’s theme parks. The ethos of McDonaldland and of Disneyland, never far apart, have finally become one. Now you can buy a Happy Meal at the Happiest Place on … Read more