Top 325 Theme Quotes

The truth of the matter is – when we look at things – every movie we do – no matter what the subject matter is – we go to the universal theme of family. We always go to that because if the movie is about family, then any audience can relate to it.

I’m singing the music publisher’s theme song – it ain’t a commercial.

I actually went to NYU for six months, had some family issues that kind of set me back, and I couldn’t afford to go anymore. That was the theme going on in my whole life, you know: money stopping me from whatever I wanted to do.

One of the big themes – if not the big theme – of ‘Mockingjay – Part 1’ is the battle of the airwaves. I don’t think teenagers really understand the role propaganda has in our lives in terms of politics, advertising, and the general manipulation of imagery.

I always try and come up with a clear theme when I’m making a videogame.

Why are some things remembered and others forgotten? That is the theme I want to pursue about the Second World War.

It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.

When I talk about ‘working class,’ I don’t talk about ‘white working class,’. I talk about ‘working class,’ and a third of working class people are people of color. If you are black, white, brown, gay, straight, you want a good job. There is no more unifying theme than that.

We spend more time at cinemas, theaters, art galleries and theme parks than we do at churches, and they have become our new cathedrals. We can spend hours at any of these places of entertainment but if church service goes on too long we get impatient.

I’ve never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that’s never been important.

Sometimes the theme of the film is something that comes down to the way you designed the film – that you’re saying something about the world. And it’s one of the things that I think animation can do, in a way that other forms of filmmaking can’t do. Because every single thing you see has got to be designed and created.

When I’m creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of a movie with a soundtrack, and try to transfer that to words.

The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.

Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some kind of feeling. I really take pride in that.

But more than anything I kind of pride myself in continuing the process that we’re trying to accomplish, and that’s just to get better and work on my fundamentals. So that’s been kind of in the theme now for a couple years and we stuck with it and that’s kind of what I want to keep doing.

I was approached by the writers of ‘The Bridge,’ and they were looking for a song that would go along with the theme of the show. They actually gave me a copy of the script, and gave me a little background info on it, and I started to work on the song from there.

The theme my generation explored was the relationship between capitalism and art.

My direction has never really changed, because I don’t think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don’t need a gimmick when you have that.

Scene by scene, you can’t help being impressed by ‘Mean Girls;’ it’s like a group of sketches linked by a theme, with some playing much better than others.

I’m obsessed with the theme parks and themed restaurants, I love it!

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.

You watch an old ‘Jeopardy!’ and the categories alone are very plain. ‘Poetry,’ or ‘Movies,’ or ‘Physics.’ If you watch it now, though, there’ll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.

I’ve got songs that sample ‘Mario Bros.,’ ‘Charlie Brown,’ the ‘Rugrats’ theme, the music that plays when you turn on a Gamecube.

My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And I’m going to argue that President Obama will lose the future because the wrong policies lead to the wrong results.

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.

To me I think artists in general make a statement – and for the rest of their lives – every album, every book – are variations on a theme.

My main theme as a songwriter seems to be a feeling of homelessness, of being in motion. The feeling of being somehow unmoored, a radical internal freedom that is very painful and also joyful.

The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.

There’s usually room in the theme parks business for efficiencies on the cost side and new investment, which drives traffic.

We zero in on family as a theme because it makes the movies emotionally available to a universal audience.

‘Dilbert’ became popular during the downsizing of the ’90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.

Theme is great for people who like to approach stories that way, but it’s an organizing principle that helps us write a story that has some weight; it’s not something that all readers have to care about.

They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don’t understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.

Jerry Goldsmith’s ‘Voyager’ theme is a brilliant reworking of the original material.

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.

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.

‘American Music’ is an inventive, passionate, pithy novel whose major theme is love itself and whose minor theme, music, is an emotional, meaningful counterpoint. Like Count Basie and His Orchestra, this book swings.

I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

You can’t write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. ‘What is criminality and what is government’ is a theme that runs through every history.

People have called me Superman my whole life. In various sports, that seems to be the common theme. My favorite superhero is actually the Incredible Hulk. He’s the only superhero that can’t die.

I travel for theme parks.

As long as there’s a strong theme that I can identify with, that’s what makes me interested in writing.

Emotional life is – alongside work – one of the great challenges of existence and is a theme that I keep returning to.

It seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry, and it was this belief which led to the subject becoming the main theme of our activities at Calcutta from that time onwards.

Oh my God, if you’re talking terrible theme songs, you have to mention Matt Hardy. I can’t understand what they’re even saying. There’s a point in Matt Hardy’s song where it sounds like they say ‘I want to meet the cheese.’ I’m always like, ‘Meet the cheese?’ Just goofy stuff.

Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series ‘M*A*S*H,’ and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael, who wrote it as a 15-year-old poet!

I love New York; I love the city. It’s impossible. It’s a theme park of a city, isn’t it.

The action comedy ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl’ raises one of the most overlooked and important cinematic questions of our time: Can a movie maintain the dramatic integrity of a theme park ride?

Milkshake’ was my theme song as soon as it came out. I think I was 13. I just love Kelis. Full stop.

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.

A theme throughout my life has been the intergenerational relationships human beings have.

I can remember hearing the theme tune to Dallas when I was supposed to be in bed. I would sneak down and try to watch it through the banisters. My mum loved that show.

In theory I know that if you have a universal theme and a good story told well, it will work everywhere.

I think death is a crucial element when designing games around the theme of the satisfaction of overcoming overwhelming odds.