Grim Truth Quotes

I don't like false happy endings, and I don't think the real world is such a forgiving place.

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

When you're portraying a tough situation, you have to show some of the things in there.

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.' Well, that’s harmless, isn’t it?' Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies... it’s just a word.

In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly.

Gone is the blinding glow in his hands - gone, too, is the illusion of purity and beauty! In it's place all that remains is mind-numbing, spine-chilling reality!

I wouldn't recommend being a musician to anyone. It's not glamorous. It's a lot of being dirty, not eating, playing for five people and one of them is the bartender.

People love to see death. It reminds them that however mean, however low, however horrible their lives become… at least they have one.

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you think. Did that sound hopeless? It didn't feel hopeless. It felt reassuring. It felt - real.

I like showing the gritty truthful dark side of humanity.

Oftentimes, reality is much worse than what you can put in a movie.

Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born.

Well, life is dark. We live in a very dark world. When they call them "dark films" it annoys me, because they're very real stories. They're stories I have seen or experienced or witnessed, and coming from that place, that is the hope of humanity.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

The truth is not beautiful --- it stands on cloven hooves - it is covered in coagulated blood --- but it is the truth.

Everything in life is not all beautiful, not all fun. There is lots of killing and drugs.