Quotes About Nuance

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

Guys do have a language, and it does express emotion with startling clarity and nuance. The idea that they don't express their feelings is as absurd as traveling to a foreign country and claiming the natives can't speak simply because you don't understand what they're saying.

Unless you were dealing with the immensely stupid, which I wasn't, it was best to muss things up, to crease things, to leave tea stains, to place a small but partial muddy footprint, not exactly in the middle of the issue, but slightly to the side of, and hopefully suggestive of and incidental to the issue.

You can miss a lot by sticking to the point.

Generalization is impossible. It is an insult.

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.

I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.

Every character, if fleshed out properly, is being taken seriously.

The beauty of Sudhir's protagonists is that they are not shown as black and white. There are various layers to the characters.

Up to a point, Lord Copper.

Sir George Sansom (1883–1965) defined them as "little drops of poetic essence.

An honest sentence should always have several meanings. Verbs!

I like characters who have faults. I'm drawn to darker people.

I'm not sassy all day every day. I have levels and feelings.

I'm big into not drawing conclusions for people. I think that's what makes for the most exciting, compelling films. I get bored when the politics of the filmmaker are the subject of the film that I see.

People say I am a little bit weird with the way I go about things, it's a fine line.

I used to think I saw life in blacks or whites, turns out I was more grey. It is extremely liberating to care for people even if they are flawed, you needn't eschew the whole person for a few not so shiny, sparkly parts.

When you're on stage, you're playing to whoever is in the back of the room, and TV and film is so much more detailed and nuanced, but I think that's what I always wanted to do. As much as I love theater and musical theater and would love to do it again, I really love the subtleties of film and theater acting.

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.

Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.

Most of my favorite fictional couples are distinctly different. Light and dark, good and evil, boring and wild... whatever! They're more fun to experience and definitely more fun to write. You have all these levels, and you know they're not going to react to situations the same way.

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

As usual the truth lies midway between these two extremes.

One of the main lessons of bioelectromagnetism so far is that less is often more.