Edan Lepucki Quotes

Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.

I think if you write about human relationships, you're always exploring the psyche and the soul. I don't separate certain - perhaps more extreme - things that people do from others.

When people concentrate on the idea of beauty, they are, without realizing it, confronted with the darkest thoughts that exist in this world. That, I suppose, is how human beings are made.

Vocally, I really like going into the darker side of myself.

I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way.

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.

My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

All my work is partly biographical. I mean, 'Crash' was absolutely that, absolutely. But you just wouldn't recognize me in most of those characters. But I was in every single one of those characters in 'Crash,' because those were all fears that I had felt. Things that I had thought in my deepest, darkest heart.

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.

I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.

Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.

Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.

Bradbury would have said his plots are myths and metaphors that tell stories about the human condition. That's what sets him apart from other science-fiction writers: He doesn't write about technology, but about the human heart and psyche.

Sylvia Plath wasn't scared of exploring the darker side of her psyche.

I like writing about the evil lurking in apparently good people.

We're just kind of dark as humans, generally.

Everybody has a dark side. It's just we are very in touch with it.

For each character, I try to understand what is driving them.

It's interesting, the acting thing. I think it must be a deep sense of insecurity that made me want to explore other characters.

Everyone has darkness inside them, however hidden.

The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.

I sometimes feel that I'm impersonating the dark unconscious of the whole human race. I know this sounds sick, but I love it.