Quotes About Nuance

For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

It's great playing a mature character. It adds something.

In my day, the films you got were about mature people, people with some kind of weight.

The thing is, when you paint somebody in all of their colors, they're never all bad or all good. Even the worst person has humanity in there somewhere.

We tend to paint the past only in extremes, as having been either categorically better than the present or irredeemably bad.

I don't want to be a propagandist or say that Pakistan is just great. There are problems, but it is a much more complex place than we are given to believe.

I'm always looking for complicated characters in fiction about whom I can feel a dozen feelings at once - in the space of a single paragraph, even.

No person is just one particular emotion.

I write a world where everyone is partly right.

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

In quantum theory, words are blunt tools.

In my experience, Corporal, the best police work looks like nothing at all and is always soon forgotten." I

People are too complicated to have simple labels.

Religion in art was a subtle business, best handled indirectly.

Las cosas no son blancas ni negras, lo que reina es el gris. Los hombres, sus almas... Pasa lo mismo. Tú eres un alma gris, rematadamente gris, cómo todos nosotros.

Rien n'est tout noir, ni tout blanc, c'est le gris qui gangne. Les hommes et leurs âmes, c'est pareil... T'es une âme grise, joliment grise, comme nous tous...

Ik heb nog nooit een schoft of een heilige gezien. De dingen zijn nooit helemaal zwart of helemaal wit, alles is grijs. Mensen en hun zielen ook… Je ziel is grijs, behoorlijk grijs, zoals die van ons allemaal…

Now, if anything in the world is complex, language is complex.

Human communication above and beyond the words that we say is so nuanced. It makes it difficult to not only analyze the vocabulary you use but the intention behind it. That's something even humans have difficulty doing, let alone a robot.

Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them.

I'm happy to do voice-overs. I always have a good time doing them. I like to explore vocal nuance and accents and different people, different personalities. In a way, it is a lot more freeing than having your face up there.

Why did Google, for example, recently decide to offer free 411 service? I haven't talked to people at Google, but it's pretty clear to me why. It's because of speech recognition. It has nothing to do with 411 service: it has to do with getting a database of voices, so they don't have to license speech technology from Nuance or someone else.

I can be serious, but there's got to be a lighter side.

It's more fun playing someone who isn't just a bad guy.