Quotes About Nuance

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

Good can exist in bad, and bad can exist in good. It's not black and white.

We are all somewhere or the other a little grey, not black and white. We have our imperfections.

I don't find anything black and white; I find grey in every person, and that is what excites me.

I don't think anyone is black and white and I think we change our minds and our attitudes about certain things as we grow to our maturity.

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.

Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white.

We don't live in a world that's black and white.

You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.

Law in Ukraine is not black and white; it is shades of gray.

It's unfortunate that in an interview sometimes things can seem so black and white.

I like characters that are complex. I don't like people who are simple to play and are either black or white.

I tend to look for the good in bad people and the bad in good people, to make them human. 'Cause I don't think that people generally are that black and white. Maybe in movie-land they can be... but that isn't necessarily all there is.

It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.

Simple black-and-white thinking or action is always going to be problematic.

I mean, there'll always be room for big productions and everything but it's good to see the other side.

It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.

People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.

I was born into a profession in which my love of words, chosen with care for their meaning and nuance, was extremely important, not only to me, but also to the people with whom I worked with.

I want to show the richness of even the most disagreeable bits of life.

It would be disingenuous to say I don't have some sensitivity to the seamy side of issues.

You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.

I'm someone who likes to explore the complexities in people.