Quotes About Nuance

In my own speech the next morning, August 31, I had to walk a fine line.

but there's more to it than has been portrayed.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Here in France, you must practice the art of accomplishing much while appearing to accomplish little. (in the John Adams miniseries on HBO)

If "good" is not necessarily good, and "bad" not necessarily bad, what is "small"?

I would encourage subtlety. Nabokov's bubble gum or Munro's water over Dumbo's magic feather.

I do try to write in ways that reflect reality, and I think that reality is rarely simple.

I've refused roles because they're too simplistic.

I'm a hardcore reality lover. I love characters that people can relate with and yet a tinge of grey shade.

there are many subtle ways with which you can make one strong point.

Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two and those who don't.

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

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

We grow up to respect the gray. Black or white, one or the other, is childish. It represents the worldview of someone who does not know the world.

For me, there is a real line between something being the worst thing in the world and the best thing in the world.

One of the most ephemeral and important things is atmosphere and tone and it's very hard to put your finger on what creates that.

When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass.

With comedy especially, it feels like such a clear-cut thing to be a writer-director. There is so much nuance and tone in a comedy that it's hard to contextualise it in a script.

With everything I do, I strive for a balance of tone, where it's not just one thing.

I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.

In the end, everything isn't always as black-and-white as the markings on a Dalmatian puppy. Even for an evil thing like Cruella De Vil.

We always have to be careful that in exposing one truth we don't cover up another. Or

It was because this stark world LeBlanc was trying to create was a lie; there was spectrum of color between black and white, and many, many layers of choice between yes and no.

I worry that if whatever pops into your head at any instant immediately goes online, you lose the crucial time for your thoughts to simmer and evolve and build up nuance, depth and empathy.