Drama asks some uncomfortable questions at times... It goes to pretty dark places.
Before I got on full-time medication, I believed that my mental disorder was the reason I could create so much and create well, because it made me crazy. I could go to these dark places and then come out of it and just be human again.
Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.
I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.
So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.
I like dark places.
I was thinking about how we're so in touch with our image now. That conception of ourselves, in a very physical sense, can be oppressive. You find people wanting to be in dark places, not really see themselves, see themselves as a filtered image. A curated image.
Even the dark places are places. You're still somewhere.
Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.
The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one.
One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.
When I was a wee little kid, I used to watch 'Dark Shadows' all the time, so I was a Barnabas Collins fan.
We all have dark shadows in our self that come out every now and then.
I had a wonderful time making 'Dark Shadows.'
I became a horror fan during the early 1960s, back when Hammer was putting out their groundbreaking 'Dracula' series with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, and grew up watching 'Dark Shadows.'
Twice I had been stopped by these jobs, and I thought the role on Dark Shadows would go on for about three or four weeks. And then, the phenomenon began, the role caught on, the mail started to flood in.
Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shadow. And dark stories develop best in dark shadows.
I'll often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours.
I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.
I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.
