Unspoken Agendas Quotes

One of the things that free people do is engage in conspiracies of silence about problems that do not seem solvable.

In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public.

It's nice to have an elephant in the room. There's nothing more helpful than something everybody's thinking about.

We need space to discuss unspoken, uncomfortable dark truths.

I feel like we all have our skeletons.

Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.

The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated.

I think that it would be hard to find a family that didn't have a secret in it somewhere, and sometimes we know about them, sometimes we don't. Sometimes we have an inkling that there's something hidden, but I think that it touches everybody's life.

If you look at my body of work, there's always a dark side to my characters. They've always got a skeleton in the closet; they've always got a subtext.

I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's lives. Lives of quiet desperation.

In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.

The danger is you never know if people are actually saying what they mean. I've learned you never know how someone will react.