Top 167 Backdrop Quotes & Sayings

There are people who have no engaged conversation with the land whatsoever, no sense of its beauty or extremes or limits and therefore no reason to question their actions in a place that is merely backdrop.

I'm talented in other places, not only in songwriting, but music is always going to be the backdrop to whatever happens in life.

Ultimately, users visit your website for its content. Everything else is just the backdrop.

If you think the shifting tectonics of world history might make for a juicy crime fiction backdrop, the last decade or so has proved you right.

... in the movies Paris is designed as a backdrop for only three things--love, fashion shows, and revolution.

At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to everyone, before which private life unfolded the gripping show of its adventures. Nowadays, time moves forward at a rapid pace. Forgotten overnight, a historic event glistens the next day like the morning dew and thus is no longer the backdrop to a narrator's tale but rather an amazing adventure enacted against the background of the over-familiar banality of private life.

After my second film, 'Simhadri,' which was a very big hit, I made 'Sye,' a small college movie with a rugby union backdrop.

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.

As modern society is formed against the backdrop of a permanent war zone, a carceral state and hyper-militarism, the social stature of the military and soldiers has risen.

Russian literature, like colonial Canadian literature, comes with a lot of landscape backdrop.

Kadamban' is not a documentary, although it's set in a tribal backdrop. There's dancing and a whole lot of entertainment.

Horror films can be of different kinds. But 'Aaviri' is not a horror film. It's a thriller against the backdrop of a family.

Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.

A conflagration always made such a nice backdrop to a battle. Fire made everything so much more joyously apocalyptic.

They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.

Theater was always in the backdrop. Nursing was a way to pay the bills. I wasn't a nurse; I had a nursing agency.

The breathtaking inanity of the [school] Board's decision is evident when considered against the factual backdrop which has now been fully revealed through this trial.

Hell is the backdrop that reveals the profound and unbelievable grace of the cross. It brings to light the enormity of our sin and therefore portrays the undeserved favor of God in full color.

'Brahmotsavam' is a love story set in a family backdrop... It's all about relationships people have on different levels.

Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a slow descending grey

All my adult life, there was the Troubles. That was the backdrop of my life.

'Madras Cafe' is set against the backdrop of the civil war in Sri Lanka in the 1990s.

Time is the backdrop of our lives and the very fabric of the cosmos.

Every day life must always be lived against the backdrop of eternity.

Each of us carries around those growing up places, the institutions, a sort of backdrop, a stage set. So often we act out the present against the backdrop of the past, within a frame of perception that is so familiar, so safe that is is terrifying to risk changing it even when we know our perceptions are distorted, limited, constricted by that old view.

With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.

Even though I love Hindi films, I don't remember any backdrop visuals that are really striking.

I know 'Napalm' seems like a military-themed album, but what it is, is just the backdrop and the imagery that we used.

My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road.

Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a backdrop for the stories we must tell.

In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.

If you want to make a great sports movie, don't put too much sports in it. It's the backdrop. It's the environment.

The Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater in Vail is unlike any other performance venue in the world, set with mountains and trees as a backdrop.

You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop.

Given the international nature of the tanker industry, it is important that global regimes are applied consistently and universally, not local or regional rules that do not recognise the total commercial and operating backdrop.

It was important to me to put together a future history that would scan, and serve as the backdrop to the domestic story. Economics is really what drives the plot.

Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.

Setting is the bedrock of your story. If you choose a real-world backdrop, be certain you get your facts straight.

I love white walls because white reflects the light and is a great backdrop for art.

We try to place the human body in relation to the image all the time, so it's never a kind of a backdrop, but it's more of ...a much more integrative experience.

Heroism is heroism, regardless of the timeframe or the backdrop.

If the Fed ceases hiking, against the backdrop of still rising commodity prices, then the Australian dollar will have few reasons for resisting any topside advances.

Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.

Harveys opened against the backdrop of Thatcher's greed culture.

For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.

In 18th-century Scotland, the main event was the Jacobite rebellion under Bonnie Prince Charlie, so that seems like a nice dramatic backdrop.

Today, I would describe a preistess as a woman who lives in two worlds at once, who perceives life on earth against a backdrop of a vast, timeless, reality.

A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.

I'd like to change the depictions of life, love, and adventure under what's known as the typical, overused backdrop of Hollywood.

The music is used as a backdrop. I take the kundalini and I play against the notes with it. I do a light show inwardly and outwardly with the vortexes of energy as you sit there. It's no big deal. It's just what I do.

'Kanche' is not primarily a war film: it is a lovely story set against a war backdrop.

With the backdrop of The Salvation Army's century and a half of service to the world's poor, these songs and reflections are born of meaningful engagement with a living Gospel

To study consumer behavior is to explore human nature at its most fundamental level using the modern world as its backdrop.

Now, because of this big backdrop that we've given ourselves, these little personal, human details take on a whole new context and give us opportunities for comedy.

I think the media's primarily an interesting backdrop - a fertile backdrop, in which we can discuss a great deal involving the human condition. We're not trying to lecture the media on how it should be doing its job or lecture people on who they should be voting for, but it does provide an incredible backdrop on which we can paint a lot of pictures and open up a lot of discussions.

What's so strong about 'Game of Thrones' is that it's a character and political drama, with a sort of fantasy backdrop.

When I cast great actors, I try to make extraordinary people ordinary, dealing with these extremely small intimate details of interpersonal relationships against an epic backdrop.

A walk in nature is a perfect backdrop to combine exercise, prayer, and meditation while enhancing the benefit of these activities.

As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.