Quotes About Nuance

No matter how flat you make a pancake, it's still got two sides.

Adaletle zorbal?k aras?nda çok ince bir çizgi var.

There's more to a person than whether or not they like dogs.

So much of writing is about what characters don't say, and in the early drafts, sometimes things get overwritten.

I'm drawn to the not-so-perfect character.

That's what attracts me to the kind of characters I try and write - that they're not cut and dried.

Look closely. The beautiful may be small.

It's such a difficult lesson to understand that someone can be wrong in theory and yet right in practice--because we want the world to be black and white, right and wrong, us and them.

There is not a right and a wrong answer to every question.

The devil's in the details!

The correct answer to almost any question in economics is: It depends.

It's not necessary that everything needs to be spoon-fed to the viewer for every story.

You don't want to bash viewers over the head with a blunt message or lecture them - they'd soon get bored with that.

Well, anytime I make a movie, I like to load it up with more things than you could ever catch on the first viewing.

Reducing everything immediately to good and evil is bad history - not only because it isn't true, but because reductionism is unpersuasive; it is boring. Good history, on the other hand, demands that one talk socratically - that one can present alternate viewpoints, not strawman arguments.

When I was young, I had a very clear point of view on things in life, on moral questions. There was a black and white viewpoint on my world. As I've gotten older, I see the grey areas appear.

If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I'll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don't believe in good and evil. I believe in grays.

For me, especially with the villain, it's not very interesting to write a guy who is just 100% bad.

The characters that have greys are the more interesting characters. The hero who sometimes crosses the line and the villain who sometimes doesn't are just much more interesting.

In Shoojit's films, there is no hero and villain. Every character has its own space and there is a social message in all of his films whether it is 'Vicky Donor' or 'Madras Cafe.'

People are much more complicated in real life, but my characters are as subtle and nuanced as I can make them. But if you say my characters are too black and white, you've missed the point. Villains are meant to be black-hearted in popular novels. If you say I have a grey-hearted villain, then I've failed.

Unalloyed heroes and unalloyed villains make me suspicious.

I don't like villains who are just villains. People who are just there to be bad - ugh - so annoying.

Look, I don't think villains are interesting when you can't tell where they're coming from.