Film Theme Quotes

When I work on a movie, I look at the script or watch the film, and I talk to my director or producers and make a plan: this is our main character; we need a theme for this plot. We need a love theme.

I'm just really old [in Doctor Strange]. Just really, really old. There is I suppose a sort of theme tune which I'm really interested in.

'Crocodile Dundee' is about people; it's 10 seconds about crocodiles.

'Ida' is about humanity, about guilt and forgiveness. It's not a film that deals with an issue as such. It's more universal.

Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.

I love 'Child's Play 2!' I love Don Mancini. That movie has a great theme: You better listen to children. That's why I wanted to do it. I was scared to do a horror movie - a blatant studio horror movie - but I liked the script, and I thought that was such an important theme because I don't think adults listen to children enough.

'White Material' is about courage and craziness.

If you make a film about childhood, you've got to pick a moment - you know, 'The 400 Blows.'

Horror films and genre films are interesting, because I always look for a deeper meaning or a deeper theme in the film.

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film, because the film is really about the soul of Schubert and the soul of Bach.

Obviously, the 'Rocky' theme is one of the most recognizable themes in film.

I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic.'

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.

The only way I know as a director is to figure out what the film is about. And out of the theme and the sense of what the film is about, all those decisions start to make sense. But to find that truth within it, you have to limit your possibilities and limit your choices. That's where this visual language grows out of.

Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.

Story is important but the most important is the theme and how you're going to convey theme cinematically. I'm a believer also.

I think that the reason why 'Goats' is called 'Goats' is because you can't give direction to goats. They do what they want. That's the point of this film.