Difficult Subjects Quotes

It's hard to find a book that's safe to write. Because one always goes to dark or difficult places.

I hope they make a show like M*A*S*H, which dealt with a lot of difficult subject matter but was very funny.

Never work with kids or animals.

I've never really thought in terms of taboos. I think that books can really help parents and kids talk together about difficult subjects. I've always felt that way.

As artists, it’s our job to delve into the uncomfortable, the difficult and the challenging.

Why write if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bullfighting risk and we do not approach dangerous, agile and two-horned topics?

Humor is this great equalizer. It gets people's defenses down, and once they're down, you can discuss some really difficult topics.

Becoming a mother hasn't necessarily changed how I shoot, but it certainly has made me more sensitive, and it certainly makes it much harder for me to photograph dying children.

One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.

Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

Giving oneself permission to write to begin with is the first enormous challenge. But you discover that this permission involves a requirement: To write about things that are difficult because they are, in fact, your subject.

I would like to, especially in film, play against type and do some heavier stuff. I'm intrigued by projects that deal with problematic people and things.

A lot of the characters I play have problems, they are marginalised, they have serious psychological problems, problems with relationships, with childhood. These are big subjects, big subjects. You can't balk at work like that. As an actor, that's as good as it gets.

Sometimes photographing people is like pulling teeth, trying to get some sort of personality.

I didn't think, 'I'd really like to work in TV; maybe I could carve out a niche where I talk to people who are somehow involved in marginal or difficult lifestyles... ' It was something I gravitated to very naturally as a subject area, almost instinctively, and somehow turned into a TV career without meaning to.

I can tell you that the book 'The Ugly Truth' is about puberty and all the awfulness that comes with that time in a person's life. It was definitely some different subject matter to be writing about, especially knowing some of my audience are second and third graders.

Writing about your family is the hardest thing, unless you had the perfect happy family life, which very few of us have had.

The place we want to explore unpleasantness in the real world is in art.

When me and my author friends who write about other difficult subject matter... when you hear from teens daily saying, 'Your book helped me or made me understand a friend better, what somebody else is going through,' you see the positive things.

There are things that aren't supposed to be comfortable to read, because those situations shouldn't be comfortable to discuss, but they still need to be discussed.

For me, every book is a journey - questioning a really difficult topic that most people don't want to talk about, much less write about. And that's what I need; that works for me as a writer.

There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.

Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.

I think audiences can deal with these mature themes.

I think, 'How could anybody mock a good pop song?' It is timeless; it transcends barriers; it breaks down every single type of social barrier that you can possibly have. It can deal with the most difficult subjects, even if it abstracts the subject matter.