Quotes About Darkness

It's something that people relate to - and I hope my kid doesn't relate to - but there's a level of believability in playing complex characters. You know, Christopher Walken has done some hilarious comedies, De Niro. There's great room for complexity and darkness to do well in comedies.

As human beings, we can relate to our dark aspects and trying to overcome our dark aspects as Xena did.

I can find some part of me that relates to even the most evil characters. At least in my imagination.

Noir is a court of human relations, and some crimes are beyond legal restitution.

Celebrate your family's bleakest moments and how your relatives overcame them. In doing so, you will encounter darkness, but you'll give your children the confidence that they, too, shall overcome.

I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.

We, of course, have the power of hindsight in our arsenal, but people living in Berlin in that era didn't. What would that have been like as this darkness fell over Germany?

I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.

Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do.

I do tend to be an anxious fellow, and I do tend to see the world as a little darker than perhaps it genuinely is, but I also do appreciate much more than a rosy scenario, I appreciate straight news. I appreciate honesty.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

If you try and kind of focus on hope, but you know what it's like to be in the dark, then hope is more meaningful.

A lot of people thought 'Funcrusher' was super dark and hopeless, and I don't think it was hopeless in any way.

At every Ozzfest show, there's horns and devils somewhere; there's some kind of darkness somewhere. But the thing is, this is a stage, homey, and those fools are entertainers. And you know what, it shows! It's fake.

There is a lot of pretty horrific stuff that happens, and I don't usually get those kinds of characters who get to go to those places.

What's important to me about horror stories is to look at what's actually horrifying about humanity, instead of shining a flashlight on it and running away giggling.

I haven't done lots of horror.

This is an area you always need to address when you're dealing with Dracula is the fact that there is something kind of attractive in his darkness - which there isn't in other horror characters.

There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here.

'American Horror Story' is dark, so you shouldn't be expecting too much happiness.

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

One day, I would love to make a horror film.

I'm actually a fan of horror films.

Horror films are the anchovies of the cinema. Either you like them, or you don't.