Whenever I write, I try and approach my stories from some kind of universal theme or idea or emotion.
Jeff Nichols
KindTryEmotionWriteThemeIdea
I'm actually quite critical of the storytelling theme. I think all the storytellers are not storytellers.
Stefan Sagmeister
ThinkStorytellingThemeCritical
Unity is Obama's theme.
Robert Dallek
UnityThemeObama
The theme of sisters - of missing sisters, of needing sisters, the special love that sisters share or the antagonism sisters share - is something that is very close to me.
Miriam Toews
LoveMeSpecialThemeMissingShare
Mother humor is such a universal theme. I wrote a show called '25 Questions for a Jewish Mother.' I had people coming up to me after the show saying, 'I'm Baptist, and my mother is just like yours.'
Judy Gold
MotherHumorPeopleMeSayingTheme
Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.
Dhani Harrison
PizzaMeSongSomeoneBellTheme
I often do that with characters, going back to my bloody drama-school days, in terms of equating them with creatures. And it's very much there as a theme of all the seasons of 'Fargo' as well: the predator and the prey.
David Thewlis
SeasonsBackPreyThemeDaysGoing
The theme of the party was Neverland Ranch, so guests were asked to come as anyone or anything associated with Michael Jackson. It was all very disturbing.
April Winchell
PartyGuestsThemeAnythingRanch
Every writer follows a theme, and mine is survival. If you can't figure out what a writer's theme is, look at the books you are attracted to.
Sylvia Day
SurvivalYouLookThemeOutMine
Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course.
Thomas Frank
MediaBiasRightThemeBeenCourse
My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.
Rian Johnson
AlwaysThemeEmotionalBiggerIdea
If I could do anything, I think a theme park. Because the world of Lisa Frank really is a world. And I think, before I die, we should have that world someplace, not just on paper. I think that would be pretty awesome.
Lisa Frank
WorldThinkDieAwesomeThemePark
Travelling childhoods are a common theme among actors. Army kids, embassy kids, travelling salesmen, clergy. Thing is, you learn about behaviour, that different places are separated by behaviours which are culturally driven.
Julianne Moore
LearnArmyYouPlacesThemeDriven
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.
Herman Melville
GreatBookYouChooseMightyTheme
When I was a student looking at Leonardo DaVinci and all those guys - Italian, Dutch, or whatever - it's incredible how each piece of the painting fits to the main theme that they want to express.
Emir Kusturica
PaintingLookingStudentWantTheme
A running theme in my life is my inability to say no to anything.
David Pogue
LifeMy LifeSayThemeAnything
A novel, even a social realist one, can't simply be a comprehensive rendering of what is. A novel requires a special angle or approach, whether in structure or language or theme, to justify itself.
Chang-Rae Lee
LanguageSpecialStructureTheme
I like to remind the contestants where they are by playing the 'Bake Off' theme tune on my phone as they walk into the tent. They freak out, as it suddenly dawns on them that they're on the show.
Paul Hollywood
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