I can understand the validity of showing people the ugliness of the world, but I also think there is a place for movies to leave people with a sense of hope.
TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.
Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.
I want to take people away from the ugliness and sadness around us every day and bring beautiful, deep music to as many people as I can.
I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.
Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.
From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.
It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation.
