Ryuichi Sakamoto Quotes

I find writing the darker side, writing tragedy, a lot easier than writing happiness. Happiness is just less psychologically compelling, isn't it?

Choreographing a fight scene is telling a little story. You learn a lot about the characters involved.

'Basra' is high on content, but a good dose of action sequences will make it edgy and pretty dark as well.

On a soap, happiness never lasts for very long!

People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.

I would take lots of falls and you know, get shot three or four times and this sort of thing, so all that sort of stuff. And there are tussles with various characters. I like that kind of thing.

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.

I don't write happy songs.

The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle.

War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.

For me, my favorite scenes, when I'm in my comfort zone, are the fighting scenes Those are my favorite to do, so I'd love to have more of those.

So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not bleed at the sound.

Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.

I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.

Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.

Musings The little poets sing of little things: Hope, cheer, and faith, small queens and puppet kings; Lovers who kissed and then were made as one, And modest flowers waving in the sun. The mighty poets write in blood and tears And agony that, flame-like, bites and sears. They reach their mad blind hands into the night, To plumb abysses dead to human sight; To drag from gulfs where lunacy lies curled, Mad, monstrous nightmare shapes to blast the world. [click on the thumbnail by Jack "King" Kirby]

The latter end of joy is woe.

War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.

Jacian Obregon. It sounds like a melody. Or a tragedy.

DEMON MATH What is JUST in a world you've ripped in two as if there could be a half for me a half for you what is FAIR when there is nothing left to share what is YOURS when your pain is mine to bear this sad math is mine this mad path is mine subtract they say don't cry back to the desk try forget addition multiply and i reply this is why remainders hate division.

Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.

Blues are the songs of despair.