Quotes About Contrast

They sat in silence for several minutes, Richard downing his glass of whiskey while Iris carefully sipped hers. She liked it, she decided. It was hot and cold at the same time. How else could one describe something that burned until it made you shiver?

Things are different now," she said firmly, hoping to put an end to the subject. "You can't compare the two.

I have found that happy people are dull. You two, on the other hand, looked ready to spit nails. Naturally I came right over." She looked from Hugh to Sarah and then said plainly, "Entertain me.

As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome in the foreground but funny in the background.

New York is not a place that lets you be indifferent. New York is this kind of place that, wherever you go, wherever you move, you are always confronted by your own time.

Being married to Ant, he's a little more industrial than I am.

I can be sweet-looking innocent girl, but I may have a sensual side to me, which I would love to explore.

People think that I am very innocent and elegant, but I am the complete opposite of that.

It's been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia.

I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles.

A shot of Shyam Benegal inspires me a lot. I wonder why a film of David Dhawan cannot have a shot like that.

Instant fame, attention, getting flown around the world and those other fringe benefits never really rang true for me.

The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.

Everything I have is natural. I do everything by instinct. I am not like the 'gringos,' with all of their apparatus.

When someone intelligent comes around, and looks at life around football in a different way, it can be alien.

I'm a highly intelligent, highly articulate, very empathetic, down-to-earth person. But man, my thoughts are incredibly dark. Incredibly dark.

People tell me I'm doing all these intense women and that I should lighten up. Then I do a comedy that I'm not happy with, and I think, 'Let's go back to heavy, heart-breaking drama; it's so much more fun.'

L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.

I think intensity is one thing, and gore is another.

The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting.

I could write songs on the beach, but the interior darkness, we have it all. We have it.

I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors.

It's hard to go back to shooting contemporary apartment interiors after you shoot something like 'Mudbound.'

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.