Andy Couturier Quotes
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I've played a lot of characters who are creeps or weirdos, with a deep darkness underneath the surface.
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There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.
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But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.
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It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.
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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
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I've noticed if you look too far ahead, it only works negatively on you.
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When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
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Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
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So many people trip in front of them because they're looking over there or up ahead.
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Rian Malan was one of the first younger writers to perceive and write about a darkness in the South African psyche that goes deeper than mere politics. To some extent, that's my territory, too.
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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
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There's a darkness to Riddick that I think allows people to want him to do bad things because you know Riddick is going to do bad things: that's just the way it is. But I think that at his core, who he is and what he's fighting for is something that everybody can identify with.
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It is no mean feat to come second to a player like that. It's not easy for me to say something like that.
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Never assume you have everything pegged. Never tweak that last duck, and pat yourself on the back, and take everything else for granted. Because that's when god rips the mike out of your hand and says, out of nowhere, you might not come back from Dead Man's Curve. Say what? That's when you wake up in darkness, fumbling for the light switch
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No matter what our personal circumstances may be, if we ourselves become a source of light, then there will be no darkness in the world.
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Often what I need is even a darker darkness.
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I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'
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Each of the actors need to have their justification for saying something awful. You want everyone to have a positive and negative thing. Even a positive thing needs to have darkness in it. It needs to have depth.
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If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.
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The view that changes in the early church resulted in the descent of a blanket of stygian darkness over the entire earth such that humankind had no contact with God or the Spirit for nearly two millennia simply doesn’t stand up to the scrutiny of modern scholarship. Scholars of today, benefiting from perspectives and information not readily available a century ago, understand that the ‘Dark Ages’ were not nearly so dark as previously had been thought.
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It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.
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Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.
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Even one second ahead of you is darkness.
