Quotes About Contrast

I'm from L.A., so I'm used to seeing people in sunglasses and flip-flops. There's something so romantic about a man in a scarf and a knitted hat.

I don't much care for the sunlight or bright colours of any kind.

My friends once told me I remind them of the main character from the American comedy series 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I thought they must mean a sunny, affable girl-next-door, but instead I was confronted with Larry David! Crabby, moody, perversely neurotic Larry David. And the thing is, my friends were right.

I like the contrast in making something that sounds sunny but also has an element of melancholy to it.

It would be difficult to write a convincing ghost story set on a sunny day in a big city.

People think about L.A. as being sunny and relaxed, but there's a darker side to it. There's people living in tents under bridges in their thousands. The culture almost encourages you to look the other way.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

You either live under a rock or you walk in the sunshine. That's pretty much how it goes.

Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.

Things aren't always full of sunshine, there has to be friction at times as well.

We thought L.A. would just be sunshine and happiness all around.

I've always just felt a little out of place. I still feel out of place in San Francisco. It's this place where everything is going great, and everyone feels super optimistic about the world. It's a little different about how I grew up.

So many Christmas films either are twee, or try and go super edgy, then stick on something Christmassy at the end of the movie.

In my films, I either want the music to be very subtle and very buried or just put it right out in front and be super blunt with it.

Working as a model is high-speed, and my own work in every sense is super slow and doubtful.

I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord.

You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world.

You, darkness, of whom I am born- I love you more than the flame that limits the world to the circle it illumines and excludes the rest.

Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror.

So this is where people come to live; I would have thought it is a city to die in.

Death is great. We are his completely with laughing eyes. When we feel ourselves immersed in life, he dares to weep immersed in us. (Der Tod ist groß. Wir sind die Seinen lachenden Munds. Wenn wir uns mitten im Leben meinen, wagt er zu weinen mitten in uns.)

Beauty is but the beginning of terror. We can barely endure it and are awed when it declines to destroy us.

Der Tod ist groß. Wir sind die Seinen lachenden Munds. Wenn wir uns mitten im Leben meinen, wagt er zu weinen mitten in uns.