Quotes About Contrast

I love taking something that is understood to be funny or charming or sweet or naive and instilling it with some degree of gravity.

'Satra Ko Shaadi Hai' is a very sweet film. It was the first film that I shot. I play a shy small town boy in it, which is an absolute contrast to what I played in 'Sanam Teri Kasam.'

Some day, I'm in a horror movie, and some days I'm in, like, a sweet, independent feature about relationship.

The aggressive side of me comes across in my music, but I'm just a sweet girl.

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.

Steve Buscemi's the coolest man in the world, and Daniel Radcliffe is the sweetest man in the world.

There's something about America's sweetheart and America's bad boy. That juxtaposition is what everyone desires.

If you have a lot of sweetness and quirkiness, someone's got to have a little bit of bite against that.

I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.

I like Los Angeles. I've been able to do a lot there - swim, ski, go riding. But California isn't very stimulating.

ABC is owned by Disney, so it's a little more conservative than Adult Swim. Polar opposites.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

In L.A. you live in a big city, but you feel like you're in the countryside. For example, I can be at home in the swimming pool and be five minutes from everything.

When things get better, there's a swing to the pendulum where things get worse for others.

Political pendulums swing hard and feed on stark contrast.

Novelists do not swing on the same pendulums as critics.

I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzzcocks, or 'Hippy Hippy Shake' by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.

Character-wise, I try to always switch it up. Whatever I'm doing now, I try to do the complete opposite next.

'Nice Guys' has darkness in it and parts that are kind of odd, but there are also parts where it's heartfelt and soulful. You can switch back and forth.

The Caribbean is great, but I also love the mountains as well. I'm a big skier, and I love spending time in Switzerland skiing. It really depends.

I saw both sides, I saw normality in Switzerland as a kid and later on I saw the insanity of it all in Italy, which almost becomes hard to live with.

Indian films have this obsession with hygienic clean spaces, even though the country's not so clean. They're either shot in the studios or shot in London, in America, in Switzerland - clean places. Everywhere except India.

'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters painting and their Judeo-Christian symbolism.