Dark Cinema Quotes

I was influenced by people like David Fincher and William Friedkin, and these directors who kinda paint their films with these dark shades.

Film noir is not a genre. It is not defined, as are the western and gangster genres, by conventions of setting and conflict, but rather by the more subtle qualities of tone and mood. It is a film 'noir', as opposed to the possible variants of film gray or film off-white.

I've always been a huge fan of thrillers like David Fincher's 'Se7en.' I am fascinated by the disturbing, dark underbelly of life. I find such films deeply engrossing. They delve deep into the human psyche, and that's a place worth exploring.

One of my favorite films is 'Let the Right One In.'

I love Lars von Trier and Michael Haneke, but if I'm not in the right frame of mind to watch their work, I feel upset after watching it.

None of my films are 'Pollyanna.' They're not little deers walking around with butterflies and stuff. That's not what I do.

I gravitate toward edgy, intense, dark films that just grab you by the throat.

I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'

I like hard movies; I like ones that are basically the opposite of a date movie.

I know what I miss as a cinemagoer is that balance of films that actually scare me; they're so few and far between.

I think there are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground.

No saint, no pope, no general, no sultan, has ever had the power that a filmmaker has; the power to talk to hundreds of millions of people for two hours in the dark.

I've always been drawn to a certain kind of dark aesthetic in cinema and in film, to what's abjected or considered abject. I've been tremendously influenced by noirish cinema whether that's Von Sternberg or Scorsese in the 70s or Lynch, etc.

But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie.

Obviously, I'm attracted to heavier movies.

When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.

I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.

I thought 'Fight Club' was great as David Fincher's version.

It is interesting to note that the best periods of Italian Horror films came out of the Sixties, when Italy was enjoying a carnival period of phenomenal optimism, and the shadowy side surfaced with all of its attendant dark, beautiful, baroque, catholic symbolism.

There's this film called 'The Pledge', with Jack Nicholson in it. Now that's a dark film.

I love horror movies.

I'm a horror movie fanatic.

Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of the book and my longtime working understanding and definition of it, noir stories are bleak, existential, alienated, pessimistic tales about losers--people who are so morally challenged that they cannot help but bring about their own ruin.

I have this really morbid, awesome love for the movie 'Black Swan.'

I'm a big fan of Brian De Palma's 'Sisters,' and I also love 'Let The Right One In.'