I hope they make a show like M*A*S*H, which dealt with a lot of difficult subject matter but was very funny.

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

When I'm writing, I separate from everyone. Even my band. I push myself, and I'm alone with my thoughts. Separating from friends and comforts and family lets you think a lot deeper about subject matter. Working alone drives me a little crazy, but it makes the writing as honest as possible.

I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again.

To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different.

The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they're young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same.

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.

When doing family entertainment, you don't actually worry about kids. You know what you can't do. But in terms of sensibility and sophistication and wit and ambition, aim for your own taste level, and kids will - if they're interested in the subject matter - be glad that you did.

I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached subject matter as a scoundrel. I had nothing to say about it whatsoever. I only wanted to make these exciting paintings.

Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.

I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.

At the end of the day, I am not a heart surgeon - I am not saving lives - although emotionally, we have to take it there. Yes, there is tough subject matter in 'The Innocents,' but in-between takes, we were laughing and living in the moment. So when I come off set, I just get on with everyday life, like being a brother.

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.

Whatever your style or subject matter, in the end, film-making is about searching for authenticity - that is what the audience will divine.

I have had UFO experiences, and yet, at the same time, I can easily be convinced that none of it is true. It's hard to say whether or not you're a believer. I've been interested in that subject matter, like lots of people. Perhaps foolishly, I've allowed some of that stuff to creep into my music.

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.