I think there's a misconception of my wanting to do dark stuff.
I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.
When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
You pay to have a good time, you don't always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad you got it. To me a movie theater ain't always the place for that.
Dad and I did not care at all for your story in The New Yorker … [I]t does seem, dear, that this gloomy kind of story is what all you young people think about these days. Why don't you write something to cheer people up?
Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?
Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.
A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.
Action films don't speak to me, because that's not my skill set. I also have a lot of stipulations about stories I don't want to perpetuate, ones that bring me down or make me feel like life's not worth living.
'Evil Urges' has some stuff in it that's unbelievable.
I find it safer to pursue the powerful, the ugly, the unpleasant.
