Dark Tone Quotes

To me, 'Ironman' was kind of dark for me. I wasn't looking for it to be that dark like that.

The Green Arrow stuff that I've responded to from the past is the Mike Grell stuff. I've liked a lot of other stuff, but I think for me, the direction and the mood and the tone that I really want is something much darker and more aggressive and really fast-paced action.

'Doctor Who' is pretty dark, I think. Generally it's dark; it's always been dark.

I prefer the European films that are like, 'No, it's over! They both die. The End.'

'Hereditary' is unabashedly a horror film, whereas 'It Comes at Night' was a lot of things: it was a thriller; it was a postapocalyptic drama. It was a slow-building, very dark movie about relationships. 'Hereditary' is also about relationships, and I hope it functions as a vivid family drama, but it is also very much a horror film.

'New Moon' was such a serious, depressing movie that people felt we had lost a little humor of the books.

One of the things I'll always remember from my time with 'Black Mirror' is the sense of all the tongue and cheek, and very, very dark sense of comedy there, too.

I'm very much of the "make it dark, make it grim, make it tough", but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

The Following and Hannibal are really well made, but the tone is very consistently dark.

I naturally, when I make beats, aim for a darker tone just because I've always preferred those types of feelings.

I happen to like dark, and I like the fact that 'Arrow' is a pretty dark show, particularly for a network show.

'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up.

I tried to buy the script of 'Hancock.' I loved it. The script was far darker and edgier than the movie.

The thing I liked most about 'Lois & Clark,' we were a fun show. Some of the later 'Superman' stuff is so dark, but I prefer 'Superman' to be a character of light and hope. I prefer the lighter romance and humor.

My work is very serious, and I use a lot of black, too.

There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.

Certainly in the second film [Maigret's Dead Man], which is quite a more unpleasant and darker story, it's quite different in tone and feel.

I feel like no matter what I'm on, whether it's 'Tiny Titans' or 'Swamp Thing' or 'American Vampire,' there will be an element of horror in it. Which would be fun for 'Tiny Titans.'

I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given my natural tendency to work in light and pale tones.

When you're recording in the midst of touring, you get a different sense about you. Things are more rocking, darker, heavier and louder. You're thinking about the audience that you're seeing every night.

Nothing is taken lightly in 'The Hunger Games.'

There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time.

I tell the truth and I don't try to sugarcoat things. But I also decided that if you don't use humor or satire, then it's just too dark all the time. And one of my favorite literary works is A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift. As you know, that was an enormously famous satire piece that was able to point out, you know, things to people in a different way. And I do believe that satire and humor can reveal truth in a way that sometimes doesn't get revealed through other means. And so I decided to, every now and then, use satire and humor as well.

'Rogue One' does not feel like a 'Star Wars' movie. There are no scrolling yellow letters. There is no classic John Williams score. It feels like a movie of a different type set in the 'Star Wars' universe, a movie where there is no magic to save you. It is not a movie for children.

Great horror movies are earned. 'Halloween' is an earned picture. Every moment of grotesque violence is earned by the suspense they're able to maintain getting there.