Quotes About Author

I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.

This limited theatrical release was a nice little bonus that I never expected.

We all need to be huge supporters of the theatrical documentary.

It's almost scary how amateur I am when it comes to musicals - I'm a musical goer, but I am not as obsessed with musicals as perhaps some of my theatrical friends are.

I'm a good girl, you know? But I'm from the South, and there are some powerful women down there, and very theatrical.

When DVD disappeared but before digital distribution came on strong, there were a few years where a movie that didn't get theatrical would just be gone.

'Defying Gravity' is a big, theatrical, grand gesture. In film, how do you match that?

I love the smaller scenes. I love the smaller, slightly more theatrical scenes.

A certain kind of film is a big theatrical film and a certain kind of film isn't. It doesn't bother me so much that you can pick your format.

I don't come from a theatrical background, but my mum and dad had fantastic taste in cinema and TV and I loved watching what they watched.

In a theatrical experience, creating a moment is somewhat easy; you can have a callback to a previous film, and if 10 people laugh, the others in the hall usually join in.

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

Generally, I don't bother trying to keep up with prolific bands - but Thee Oh Sees demand it.

The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.

When I play 'Grand Theft Auto,' I'm such a nerdy little law abider because I've always had this active imagination in which I sympathize and empathize with things.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

I've got songs that sample 'Mario Bros.,' 'Charlie Brown,' the 'Rugrats' theme, the music that plays when you turn on a Gamecube.

I try to construct each of my novels around one central theme - core tensions shared by the characters.

The anti-Japanese resistance was as familiar a theme in North Korean cinema as cowboys and Indians was in early Hollywood.

A novel, even a social realist one, can't simply be a comprehensive rendering of what is. A novel requires a special angle or approach, whether in structure or language or theme, to justify itself.

You can almost liken 'Bad Samaritan' to 'Funny Games' because it's that theme of horror just down the street in your neighborhood.

I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.

The pull of history has been a strong theme in my life as a novelist.

I don't tend to do a whole Instagram theme. I like to capture the moment in front of me and make it look as good as possible!