Quotes About Juxtaposition

I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy material. Just the juxtaposition of the different styles in itself sometimes is funny. Like, I do sort of an acoustic version of 'Purple Haze' that has some bluegrass licks in it.

Every now and then we find ourselves living through moments that make no sense at all. It's almost as if some omnipotent film editor has snipped us out of our familiar everyday movie and spliced us into something completely random, from a different time and genre and even from a foreign country and partially animated, because suddenly you look around you and the language is unknown and nothing that happens has any relationship to what you think of as reality. This

The images did not quite mesh, but they were very unsettling, as if you had entered a cathedral for high mass and found people copulating on the altar. Brian

I like mixing or combining hobby and pleasure with work and have-tos.

It's an interesting juxtaposition, being student body president and leading others and learning how to effectively help people on the team in a way that's not as direct.

And it was if our lives collided in an unbelievable exquisite mess.

Nice days, terrible nights.

Just so with the movie, which is why bad filmmaking can succeed. It is our nature to want to make sense of these events—we can't help it. The human mind would make sense of them even if they were a random juxtaposition.

The job of the film director is to tell the story through the juxtaposition of uninflected images—because that is the essential nature of the medium.

A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That's why my feelings always come in twos.

A pauper in the midst of wealth.

Nothing like the tour to show people how poorly they fit together.

Nothing like a tour to show people how poorly they fit together.

He's a member of the provincial legislative assembly. She is a top city lawyer. They both have children. They always pick a place like this. Something industrial. Dank. Deserted. Tagged with graffiti, littered with urban detritus. Sordid yet delicious in a disreputable way. It's their quirk—fornicating against backdrops of squalor. Juxtaposing their glamour and brains and wealth and privilege against these gritty urban canvases

Humor and seriousness can be an unstable mix.

The perfect couple: she puts the id back in Yid, I put the oy back in goy.

not only do the edges not fit, they're not even from the same damn puzzle.

the house looked shoddy in comparison with its neighbors. It stood out in the elegant street of terraced houses like a meatball in caviar.

Miss Small was the opposite of her name. It was like a fat guy was named Mr. Thin or a dumb guy was named Mr. Smart or a really handsome guy was named Mr. Ugly or…well, you get the idea.

We often understand something better when we see it in comparison with something else than when we see it in isolation.

Most of my books have always worked through juxtaposition, jumping through different point of views and time.

I am convinced that tough villains help make a comedy sparkle because they provide a contrast to the funny guys.

The flavour of cabbage is seldom welcome in a dessert

'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.