Arca Quotes

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

It takes two flints to make a fire.

Friction makes sparks and sparks start creative conflagrations.

If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.

The climax is the place where the opposing forces in your story finally clash. This is true whether those opposing forces are two armies or two values inside a character's soul.

Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

There's something to play if there's conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that's where drama is; if the character is grappling with something you've got something to play, there's layers to it.

I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of the main things in songwriting is definitely friction between the words and the melody.

It's not like you make a decision and everything inside you is 100 percent happy.

And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.

A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.

I'm a leading man trapped in a bad guy's body.

Before we ever had a script or anything, I was attracted to the idea of playing a character that housed within himself two opposing traits.

During my childhood and teenage years, everything I knew was at war. My mother and father were at war. My sister and I were at war. I was at war with my atypical nature, desperately trying to fit in and be normal. Even my genes were at war - the cool Swiss-German side versus the hot-headed Corsican.

It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however.

Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.

What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.

Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict ... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life.

Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.

A spark could be enough to set them ablaze.

Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.

The tension of opposites: Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.