I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.
One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.
My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.
'The Simpsons' from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash '60s sitcoms - you had a main title theme that was bombastic and grabbed your attention - and when you look at TV shows of the 1970s and '80s, things got very mild and toned down and. . . obsequious.
Thou wouldst be loved? - then let thy heart From its present pathway part not! Being everything which now thou art, Be nothing which thou art not. So with the world thy gentle ways, Thy grace, thy more than beauty, Shall be an endless theme of praise, And love - a simple duty.
Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.
There is never a specific theme or anything I have interest in. Really, I make decisions based on decisions that are made by other people and whatever is presented to me, and I do it on a first come, first serve basis, and go from there.
Worship is the grand theme of the Bible.
It took me a long time to put it to use in things, but the name of my publishing company is Nine Music, and "Red" became my theme song.
Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.
That is the theme of the Million Mom March: 'I don't need a brain - I've got a womb'.
Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.
The basic theme of the kapha metabolic type is relaxed.
Glorious the northern lights astream; Glorious the song, when God's the theme; Glorious the thunder's roar: Glorious hosanna from the den; Glorious the catholic amen; Glorious the martyr's gore.