Quotes About Dark

There's the animation ghetto of feature films in this country. There's this flavor at DreamWorks, and Pixar does their own thing, and generally they're safe. But if you look at Walt Disney's original films, at the time and in the context, they weren't safe. They were really dark and troubling.

The most interesting thing about acting is when you go to the dark places, that's a lot of energy. When you go to the happiest places, it's also a lot of energy.

I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.

There's this film called 'The Pledge', with Jack Nicholson in it. Now that's a dark film.

I love 'The Omen,' just as a piece of plotting.

There's nothing lovelier than having a newborn and still plotting a dark conspiracy.

Deep poignant pathos can be described better in dark humour.

I'm used to teaching classes in the dark.

The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising.

I like dark comedies. That's why I like the Wayans Brothers.

A lot of comedies in the 1980s and 1990s had all these colors and were so brightly lit. But John Landis had this dark style, like a Scorsese film.

I prefer comedies when they come from a dark kind of place and have a reality to it.

I went to Cyprus with a friend and her family when we were about 16. She was riding on the back of a scooter we'd hired when we got surrounded by local boys on their scooters down a dark country lane. They tried to get us to pull over.

The next film I'm making is a horror film, and I'm making it with A24. It's a dark break-up movie that becomes a horror film, set in Sweden. That's all I can really say now. It's called 'Midsommar.' Everybody's been spelling it wrong. It's 'midsummer' in Swedish.

Even things like Abba - I think it's always got a dark, subversive element to it. You've got these four blonde Swedish people singing about their relationships breaking up while they're all going out with each other.

There's something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.

Being a fugitive living in the woods at the time, I had to write before it got dark. Now darkness was approaching again, only more insidiously.

Why is it that there is this misconception that dark equals good. That only applies to chocolate.

You guys go ahead, I'm just going to harvest his kidneys and I'll catch up.

That wind of terrible and jealous beauty blowing over me—that dark fire, that music …

Information may travel at light speed, but meaning spreads at the speed of dark.

He nodded in the dark, confirmed. His hand waved a question across the sky. Stars everywhere. More than we can count? So why isn't the night sky full of light? His slow, sad words stiffened the hairs up and down my body. My son had rediscovered Olbers' paradox.

He lies still in the dark, hungry, listening to the birds discuss life in a thousand ancient dialects: bickering, turf war, recollection, praise, joy.

There was a cosmic breakdown between heaven and humanity on the table. As if some malevolent force had clawed from a dark world into this one.