Quotes About Contrast

In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert.

There's a certain darkness to Slipknot, but at the same time, there's a very strong dose of positivity. Stone Sour is the same way. There's a certain melancholy that comes with the slower stuff, but at the end of the day there's also that other side that is very positive. It's all how you deliver.

As much as I love Antonioni films, I love the Three Stooges.

I'm just the opposite of a lot of photographers who want everything to be really, really sharp. And they're always, you know, stopping it down to F64.

Amazon.com isn't the same as going down an aisle. The same as record stores. You'll go for Billie Holiday, and you buy Gustav Mahler as you're going out the door.

I grew up with the Gene Kelly look at war. The cheerful kind of stories you tell about a horrendous war.

I've been the lull, and I've been the storm and also somewhere in between. But that's OK. I love the limelight after all.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.

People thought the storyline and characters for 'X-Files' made it a 'dark' show, but I never saw it that way. I always thought Mulder and Scully were the light in dark places.

I like the 'Keystone Kops' storyline. It didn't actually go quite the way I wanted to, but it was another great way to show how different life was in these two different corners of the DCU, being on the ground in these different areas.

Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.

I think that 'Vinyl''s faster-paced. I think 'Boardwalk' was much more luxurious in its storytelling.

Postwar America was a very buttoned-up nation. Radio shows were run by censors, Presidents wore hats, ladies wore girdles. We came straight out of the blue - nobody was expecting anything like Martin and Lewis. A sexy guy and a monkey is how some people saw us.

You'll never even catch me doing that 'soft atheist' thing of very softly singing along or just mouthing the words, looking down at a hymn sheet every few seconds to check the words. To state the obvious, as an atheist, the hymn sheet is no use to me. So I just stand there, looking straight ahead or up at the ceiling, and do nothing.

If you have a character that doesn't have anything wrong with him, there's nothing funny about it. The idea of the straight man is very important. But I'd rather it be somebody else, because it's not as fun.

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

It sounds strange to say, but someone's bad luck is sometimes the happiness of the other.

Well, there's nothing strange about Americans as a whole. But, Angelinos are different!

It's strange for my friends when they see me on TV and in magazines, because the person that they see doing interviews and pictures on the red carpet is not the person that they know.

There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.

I have to say, though, it's a little strange doing both because Durant is very straight and stern and austere.

I had the pleasure of getting to know David Beckham, an icon of football and beyond that. He's a great person, but I had no idea he was such a shy guy. Sometimes when you speak to him he blushes. It's very strange, he's famous around the world but in private he is very shy.

It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.