Serious Themes Quotes

My tendency in life is to like movies that deal with heavy stuff, but it's my nature.

It's very hard to deal with true subject matter, especially when you're writing about such weighty issues.

My first film was a comedy, but after that I went always into more heavier stuff.

I think comedy and satire are the strongest ways to deal with very serious themes and very painful themes.

The great European novel started out as entertainment, and every true novelist is nostalgic for it. In fact, the themes of those great entertainments are terribly serious-think of Cervantes!

I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers.

In my day, the films you got were about mature people, people with some kind of weight.

I want to do more drama. Comedy is the path of least resistance for my company. People know we can do them. People know they get a good response. People want to make them. Who am I to push up against that?

You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture. I can think of a lot of comedy screenplays; Woody Allen has had numerous nominations for his screenplays. But most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important.

Disney did well with human characters but only in dramas, not comedy.

I tend to be attracted to material that has a tough edge to it - darker material.

We definitely wanted to show we're a band that can be around, and we have something to say other than the lighter, 'pickup line' sort of songs.

I wasn't interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama.

'M*A*S*H,' to me, was about something. It had value beyond the laughs.

There were some particular themes that I knew I wanted to hit, and when I got deeper into the project I found that it was becoming serious in and on its own. By the end, it's not very funny at all. I think, now, that part of the power of the book is that the jokes are kind of sparkly distractions.

We believe that games are a legitimate medium, as legitimate as literature, to talk about very dark and serious things.

With traditional school visits, I also get to speak with people who haven't read my books and talk about my writing process as well as the serious aspects I write about.

On the stage . . . masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts without consideration either for suitability of scene or for the words spoken by the rest of the cast: the result is a general tendency for things to be brought to the level of farce even when the theme is serious enough.