Quotes About Nuance

Even with whatever people want to label me with, there are so many other sides to me.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

I don't accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.

John Kerry doesn't think in terms of black-and-white. He's all gray, and he looks at all sides of the issues. That makes people think he likes to be devil's advocate. Whatever you say, he'll challenge you on.

Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.

You try to - you want to fly on both sides of the political fence because that's where the - where the comedy is.

I think the most interesting characters are those in which you can see both sides.

Having lived in America and France, I've been on both sides of the picky-eating divide.

I really am one of those people who are mixed on many issues and can see many legitimate sides.

I think that's what Peter Morgan does so well, is to show very balanced sides of everyone.

I am interested in the gaps between one piece of sidewalk and the next. I am interested in the things for which we don't always have a name, and the things that are not easy to articulate - the difference between what we think and how we feel.

People like light and silly, and they like stuff that's really energetic, and you get a character in a film bouncing around and screaming, people laugh. That's all it takes. I don't find that funny. To me, what's funny is dialogue and nuance of character and performance.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

Simple things don't interest me.

I actually had publishers that would encourage me at times to keep it simpler, not pack in so much information, but I'm a fan of songs and movies and books that the second time you read them, you find more stuff that you missed, so I like to pay attention to that detail.

Life is complicated, and art has the right to be complicated, too. I don't like films that simplify.

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

The practice of baring all, analyzing every nuance embedded in a quarrel, is a surefire way to keep an argument alive. Better to establish a temporary peace and revisit the conflict later. Often, by then, both parties have decided the issue isn't worth the relationship.

Law and order, punishment and fair play, are all on a continuum where there are far more gray stretches than there are black and white.

the fields of learning and performance are an exploration of greyness—

Words are only words

It isn't what you say that counts, it's what you don't say.

tiny movements that spoke volumes and seemed to envelop them in a fine mist of Pretty.

If the story is insensitive to a person and is not nuanced enough, that's a story I don't want to be a part of. Otherwise there is no other character that I don't want to play.