Quotes About Gritty

I love challenging films, really. I'd prefer to do some gritty, challenging roles. That would be awesome and really fun.

'Colors' is pretty good. It takes you inside the cop car bit. I like reality myself. I like reality-based kind of movies.

I tend to be attracted to material that has a tough edge to it - darker material.

North Carolinians are determined, tough people.

I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it's a seedy gritty world. Listen, I've played till 4 in the morning. I've played with a half million dollars on the table.

I cannot bear to look at his hands, they are like wax. Under the nails is the dirt of the trenches, it shows through blue-black like poison.

Whatever I lack in size and strength and speed, I kind of make up for in being grittier. When it comes to something like basketball I'm definitely not the best guy on the court, but I love elbowing and pushing people out or boxing them out.

I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.

The thing I really love about 'Saturday Night Fever' is that the movie is a gritty drama. Most people just remember the amazing, whimsical fantasy dance scenes, but then, when you watch it again, it's raw.

I did a lot of heavy-lifting - construction, demolition, that kind of thing. Dusty, dirty work.

If you say, 'I listen to pop,' you picture this kind of perfect, colorful, polished song. I want to have that, but when you open it, you see this gritty dark - kind of like dancing your tears away. Disguise the sadness in a pop beat.

'Batman Begins' came out and it was really successful, and it had gritty naturalism. And suddenly... I can't tell you how many movies I was pitched where it was, 'We want to do what you did with 'Batman' but with 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' or whatever.

I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

Hello from the cracks in the sidewalks of NYC," Berkowitz wrote, "and from the ants that dwell in these cracks and feed on the dried blood of the dead that has settled into the cracks.

Joy is spiritual and far grittier than happiness, and far more robust.

say one thing for Logen Ninefinger, say he's a cunt.

Top Boy' isn't the type of programme that is trying to be righteous and have a happy ending, it is just real.

'Trainspotting' is among my favourite films of all time.

I ought to be more hardboiled; I'd like to be. I don't think I have it in me. To write in clipped sentences. To employ gritty metaphor in the introduction of sultry blondes... I can't do it, so why bother trying?

She could feel the crunch of city grit between her back teeth.

The place smelled of smoke and sweat, of spilled drinks and sprayed vomit, of desperation and wasted chances

Breathing the air was like swallowing broken glass.

People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that.

Necesitamos, por ello, una persona conocedora de los ambientes menos gratos de nuestra sociedad, cuyo nombre pueda ensuciarse sin perjuicio de nadie, capaz de realizar por nosotros el trabajo y de la que, llegado el momento, podamos desembarazarnos sin empacho.