Those characters are like my dark side magnified by a thousand, ... Now I've mellowed in my older age, but I'm still playing that.

Those characters are like my dark side magnified by a thousand. Now I've mellowed in my older age, but I'm still playing that.

I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.

There's a dark side to everything.

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.

(Oleg) lives on the dark side of that American dream. He's always next door playing with Nicky because he wants to (be a part of) that family. It's like a Pinocchio story in that he's not treated like a real kid - he doesn't have a real kid's life.