Moral Themes Quotes

I took a 19th-century Russian novel class in college and have been smitten with Russian literature ever since. Writers like Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Grossman, and Solzhenitsyn tackle the great questions of morality, politics, love, and death.

I do think of my films as morality plays, even though my reputation is, you know, splatter films and like that. But I think of them as very moral.

Owen [Suskind], in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people.

If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories.

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

I've never been specifically attached to westerns, but there are those I like - one of the best westerns I've seen is 'Unforgiven.' I think the genre has something extremely powerful that can allow them to talk about good and evil in a very straight way.

When we talk about novels, we don't often talk about imagination. Why not? Does it seem too first grade? In reviews, you read about limpid prose, about the faithful reproduction of consciousness, about moral heft, but rarely about the power of pure, unadulterated imagination.

You don't put your personal viewpoints in a good movie. A movie should only be concerned with characters, not some big moral, although it's always underneath.

Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.

The highest grossing films have great, moral messages - not dirty, base themes, so we're trying to get producers to make more of the uplifting movies.

Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else.

I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.

All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

'Farscape' is a fabulous vehicle for looking at ethical, moral, political, and social issues.

The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality".

With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.

I like to put my characters through a lot, so, in 'Talon,' my fans will find familiar themes of bravery and sacrifice, and what it means to be human... even if you're not human.