Quotes About Contrast

There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New York.

I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.

I love L.A. I always have such a great time in L.A. The way I kind of define me and L.A. is the noise of the factory doesn't let me sleep well.

I play Beethoven and Bach. At the same time, Biggie is my dog.

In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.

There's a huge difference between who I am when I make music and who I am the rest of the time.

As a gut thing, my next project is always the complete opposite of the thing I've just done. So if I've spent a lot of time doing film, I might then do some radio.

I'm fascinated by evil queens. They're very alluring and repellent at the same time, and I'm into that dichotomy.

These days, the House Republicans actually give John Boehner a harder time than they give me. Which means orange really is the new black.

I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.

I think every market has lot of things in common, and at the same time, every market has lot of different things.

Every time you see an interior, where somebody has a cockpit, is the real existing thing. Every time you see the exterior zooming by, it's completely CGI.

I'm happiest when I feel that several almost opposing sensations are present at the same time.

What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time.

I felt like on one hand the clarity of thought was amazing, but on the other we went during Antarctic summer, so the sun didn't set the whole time we were there.

I happen to like things that are funny and dramatic at the same time. I don't see the difference.

I was pretty much a minimalist. I liked a lot of black at the time, which is very different from my wardrobe now, because I live in color.

I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.

In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine.

It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly.

He felt as if he had been shipwrecked on the Titanic, but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania

In a dark time, the eye begins to see / I meet my shadow in the deepening shade...Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.

The unique idea of [The Darkest Time] movie is because in usual if you are in darkness, you are scared. But this movie is the opposite. In darkness, you are okay.