Tone Balance Quotes

If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief.

Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

There's a tricky tone where you try to get some humor into a movie that's also a tough tale of murder and revenge. You have to ice skate rather carefully between the humor and the action tension part of the drama.

There's always a tone that you have to hit right in horror. With the blood, you want to make sure that it makes sense all along.

Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

I am a huge fan of what Marvel has established. But when they first came to me, Thor and Captain America were not even close to being finished. I thought to myself, 'Okay, you have all these moving parts, but how can you possibly bring them together?' Iron Man, Hulk, Thor and Captain America don't seem like they could co-exist, and ultimately that is what intrigued me and made me think, 'This can be done and this should be done.' You can't put these characters in a movie together without a certain amount of humor. It's an inoculation against the unreality.