Philip Kerr Quotes

When I see 'Sunshine,' I see a film that part of me is kind of very proud of and another part of me is very sad about, so it's a really complicated film for me. And I've never been really able to resolve all that in myself.

I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.

Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.

There's always going to be a war going on inside of me. That's just, I think, my make-up.

You have a book like 'The Shining,' where the hotel is scary - but scarier because it's the haunted house of Jack Torrance's heart.

'Armor On' explains why I needed armor in the first place. Sonically, you'll hear this battle of, 'I love you, no I don't. I love you, I hate you.' That's what you'll feel. You see the story kind of fight against itself.

I think you can have varied and seemingly contradictory depictions of a single person because we all have many facets and, in a way, many selves.

She hugged me and I could feel the heat rise in my face, either from shame or love, like there was a difference.

It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.

Everyone has darkness inside them, however hidden.

so your father told you once that you were his princess you won't see the castle you cannot find your prince and now you've grown a lot and your dress don't fit right your daddy's not a hero he stole your chariot so here you are in pieces trying to prove to us it's real the softness of your smile and the lies you want to feel the scales beneath your skin are showing off today there's evil in your heart and it wants out to play there's evil in your heart and it wants out to play there's evil in your heart and I have made a home here for me you'll burn it down with your fantasy

Drama is always conflict. Conflict either comes from within or without. The thing that makes a show different is the conflict manifests itself both internally and externally.

Will you miss him Holly?” he asked suddenly. [...] “No,” she said. “I will not miss him.” But her eyes told the real story.

Inside Laila too a battle was being waged : guilt on one side, partnered with shame, and, on the other, the conviction that what she and Tariq had done was not sinful; that it had been natural, good, beautiful, even inevitable, spurred by the knowledge that they might never see each other again.

A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

My heart says one thing. My head says another. Very hard to get your heart and head together in life.

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

His parting shot to me had been, "I don't want to love someone who is more at home with the monsters than I am." What do you say to that? What can you say? Damned if I know. They say love conquers everything. They lie.

She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes—she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with her deepest life.

Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone.

I don't know whether these feelings - this thing growing inside of me - is something horrible and sick or the best thing that's ever happened to me. Either way, I can't stop it. I've lost control. And the truly sick thing is that despite everything, I'm glad.

My feelings for you shame me into silence.

I'm a war of head versus heart, it's always this way. My head is weak, my heart always speaks, before I know what it will say.

There's a quickening of her heart when she sees him. She tells herself it's anger.