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.
The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, ‘What does the protagonist want?’ That’s what drama is. It comes down to that. It’s not about theme, it’s not about ideas, it’s not about setting, but what the protagonist wants.
The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that’s another theme that interests me. Because most people don’t intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing – in their mind.
There’s this theme throughout my life of Diana cropping up. It doesn’t feel ordinary.
I go online, and I love watching heavy metal bands and guitar players play heavy metal versions of the ‘Zelda’ theme, and people do all the ‘Zelda’ music, which is one of my favorite soundtracks.
Michael had Neverland. It was his mission before Michael passed away to create a theme park, and we are taking over that mission.
If you’re going to do a show about somebody who dumped you, it’s much richer if you have three characters dealing with different aspects of that theme. There is more space for people to identify with it.
I don’t like to explain the clothes, how I made them, the theme, et cetera. It’s because the clothes are just as you see them and feel them. That’s what I want… just see and feel them.
When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I’m finished with a theme, I’m generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises.
When we did the ‘Titanic’ theme, that song was everywhere. At the time we did it, it wasn’t an old song. We didn’t really listen to that song. We’re not fans of the song. It was more about taking the song everyone knew and making it sound like a New Found Glory track.
Secrets are very intriguing – I always think that’s an interesting theme.
I’ve always had a thing for theme parks and their less-glorious cousins, amusement parks, the carnival midway, and others of such ilk.
Incorporating travel, elements from different cultures and locales, is a great way to establish the overall tone and theme for a soiree.
The impulsivity of M. B. S. has been a consistent theme – from the war in Yemen to the wave of arrests of constructive critics, royals, and senior officials accused of corruption.
If there were only one truth, you couldn’t paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
A song like ‘Tears Dry on Their Own’ is really sad, but it’s hopeful, too – that was my theme song for the first boy who broke my heart.
I started with the Target Company in 1993 when their Christmas theme that year was ‘It’s A Wonderful Life,’ and they reunited the actors who played the Bailey kids. So we went all over and really had a blast getting the love from all of the fans and thought, ‘Whoopty-doo, there’s something going on here.’
My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea – some emotional thrust.
I think death is a crucial element when designing games around the theme of the satisfaction of overcoming overwhelming odds.
There seems to be a theme running through the women I play. They take their circumstances and try to make the best of them.
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.
All of my stuff is based on personal stories to back up my arguments. It’s not a lecture, it’s still comedy. I think a lot of comics forget that you can have a theme but that it shouldn’t replace the jokes.
‘Saw VI’ has a really interesting theme about the ripple effect. Everything you do affects the guy next to you, which affects the guy next to him, which affects her over here. And you might think that what you’re doing is not that significant, but just the way you respond to other people makes the world the way it is.
I kind of approach action/non-action very much similarly. It has to be character-based and it has to kind of come off the theme and the overall arc.
It’s funny, when you have a theme so particular to cows – or it could be anything like hair or nails – when you’re rapping about a specific thing, you can have more punchlines about it.
I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.
So for anyone who is stumped by how to decorate their tree; Think of your own theme and see what inspiration you come up with. Anything goes!
I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women’s liberation, when brotherhood meant men and women both, so I wrote the song. Since I had always been very fond of the Passion Chorale, I wrote words to that great piece.
I used to love ‘Jeeves And Wooster.’ That theme tune was great. I remember writing to them when I was little to get the music so I could learn it on the piano, and they sent me the sheet music.
The way jazz works is that we take a theme, and then we write using the same structure, same chord changes, and then we can do different tunes.
Busch Gardens was my theme park; it was where I went on my day off from school.
This was a theme of Sen. Akaka’s career – to advocate for people who did not have power, for people who were vulnerable. He was a champion for the federal government employees who continue to this day to be a punching bag for some.
Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.
Belarus is a closed, authoritarian system, and the theme of Chernobyl is also a closed topic.
I always thought I’d be playing; now I watch Manchester United every weekend on Sky Sports and they’re using ‘Found What I’ve Been Looking For’ as a theme song – and I’m sitting at a pub and it comes on and I’m like, ‘Oh yeah, mad.’
For me, when I started writing, it was mostly poetry. And poetry is very visual. I feel the same way about the way that I approach direction. There might be a theme within the visuals that you’re choosing that people don’t consciously pick up on, but that they feel.
‘The Simpsons’ from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash ’60s sitcoms – you had a main title theme that was bombastic and grabbed your attention – and when you look at TV shows of the 1970s and ’80s, things got very mild and toned down and… obsequious.
I like to try to capture places that a lot of people went to or have a deep emotional connection to. Malls, abandoned speedways, abandoned theme parks. To me, those are most interesting kinds of things to capture.
In a sense, all of my books have been about a ‘poisonous pedagogy,’ which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.
Themes on some TV shows are overdone. That ‘Playhouse 90’ theme music was an example.
We need people who are open to doing something with theme, something with a cartoonish twist.
I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don’t have any prejudice. Life concerns me.
Tiny slices, no frosting, forty-five minutes on the StairMaster: These are the conditions, variations on a theme of vigilance and self-restraint that I’ve watched women dance to all my life, that I’ve danced to myself instinctively and still have to work to resist.
The concert industry lags dramatically behind the great hospitality businesses out there, whether they’re theme parks or hotels or sporting events.
I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.
When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme.
I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.
Someone recently played me ‘Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell’ by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.
With Jubilee I had a natural interest to write about something on the opposite end of human experience – a real celebration of release and joy, which is in some ways an unexpected theme for the indie rock genre in general.
I wanna thank Biggie Smalls, Redman, Jadakiss, Tupac and Michael Jackson for being my theme music throughout my career.
As far as I’m concerned, and this is a big theme of mine, I’m not interested in white people loving me. It’s an unrealistic expectation. Black people don’t love anybody but themselves.
I’m always here for a theme party, and I love to dance.
I love listening to songs that are from the heart and that touch the heart. So, love is the preferred theme for most of the songs that I sing.
The best diet for overall health, and specifically for heart, brain, and cancer risk reduction, is a diet that’s aggressively low in carbohydrates with an abundance of healthful fat, and this is the central theme of ‘Grain Brain.’
Between the theme parks and the movies, the Disney iconography was probably the first set of archetypes that I was exposed to. Walt was able to expose me as a child to the full array of emotions, including fear and sorrow. Those movies and attractions haunted my dreams and made a deep impression on me as a child.
