Paula Hawkins Quotes

It is a very beautiful story, 'The Crow.' It is a very tragic story with huge emotional themes.

'Beauty Queen' will always be a favourite because I think it's a really tight play, and when it's done right, there is a sadness to it that I love.

I think that people are fascinated with the stories, with human nature and the dark turns it can take.

Good TV is not about people being happy; it's drama.

Stories always have held conflicts and contrasts, highs and lows, life and death situations. And there can be much suffering in stories, but now we say the artist doesn’t have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand the human condition, understand the suffering.

Any great movie you watch has some element of darkness or loss or some suffering in it. That's what makes the fun parts fun.

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

I like to play characters that get to do it all - to have a bit of comedy here and a bit of pathos here and a bit of suspense here, that's what's fun.

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

On a soap, happiness never lasts for very long!

Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness.

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.

I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.

I write plays about big, intense subjects.

It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are?

I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in 'New Moon,' like this epic set-piece at the end of the film in Italy.

I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.

I find Spike Jones' movies to be really very inventive and funny, but they're really sad and touching and really key into the different facets of the human experience.

I think one of the scariest things about depression is that it exists along with the happiness and the joy, and it kind of plays with it and sucks the color from it.

Opera tells stories that all ages can relate to: love, death, revenge, etc.

I'm really bad writing the chase scenes or fighting scenes. I'm much better for writing, like, a more melancholic or tragic music.

I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor. Whatever people are struggling with, the struggle is often where the drama is.

Unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money.

The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity.

During the course of a day, some dark feeling comes, maybe some sadness comes, some thrill, some great happiness, some strange humor. Cinema can embrace all that in one story, just as the story of life.