Repetitive Themes Quotes

It's like if every single male artist dressed up as farmers. In every video they were on a farm. Whether it was Jason Derulo or Oasis, they're always on a tractor, they're always surrounded by sheep and always in boots. And all the songs are about enjoying farming, and this is all you've had for 10 years - you'd think you were going mad.

If you stay in one place, you can only rap about one thing because that's all you know.

Every decent director has only one subject, and finally only makes the same film over and over again. My subject is the exploitability of feelings, whoever might be the one exploiting them. It never ends. It's a permanent theme. Whether the state exploits patriotism, or whether in a couple relationship, one partner destroys the other.

It's really rare in TV not to think, 'Well, I've seen a version of this before.'

I think most superhero stories have already been done a million times.

I was under the impression that if you've read one vampire series for young adults, you've read them all.

I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.

I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.

I know what I'll be preaching in the spring, what I'll be preaching in the summer, and what I'll be preaching next fall.

When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue or to meet us at every turn: in every conversation that we hear in every book we open, in every newspaper we take up, the reigning idea recurs; and then we are surprised, and exclaim at these wonderful coincidences.

Godard is a phony to me. His technique is great, but he just keeps replaying the same political rhetoric.

Remind me again what's wrong with Dave Matthews?" "Basically everything, except technical proficiency," Walter said. "Right." "But maybe especially the banality of the lyrics. 'Gotta be free, so free, yeah, yeah, yeah. Can't live without my freedom, yeah yeah.' That's pretty much every song.

A lot of big studio films, which are fun and great, tend to have a formula, and you've seen it before, and it's a new version of it.

Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.

Nothing new ever happens in the books. It's the same old theme.

It is not the team that creates the comfort zone. I thinks it's the kind of films. You keep doing same kind of films that makes you comfortable. But none of my roles have been the same. They have been different, even though the films' premise were the same.

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.

I've heard some writers say that they are obsessed with certain ideas and that they find themselves writing around the same obsession again and again, but telling different stories to get at that same idea. I'm beginning to think that I suffer from this syndrome, too.

When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped.