Quotes About Ambivalence

My double, seen from behind, explains something to me: that I'm me and also someone else, that I'm leaving and also staying. This realization momentarily jostles my melancholy, like a current that stirs the branches, that discomfits the leaves of a tree.

on the surface of the Grand Canal, my writing in Italian is something impalpable. Nebulous, like the fog. I'm afraid that the bridge between me and Italian doesn't, ultimately, exist. That it will remain, at best, a chimera.

As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn't come with easy answers.

We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want to eat it, too.

He wasn't surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you've done all the work to get something you don't even want it anymore.

I was toying with the idea of ambivalence a lot. It's something I work on, not being so invested in outcomes and being more engaged in the process of my life.

I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.

A lot of people think I'm difficult to work with. It's not like I really want to do that much stuff, so it doesn't really matter. I guess I'm somewhat difficult when it comes to comedy.

If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.

I'm not a huge fan of my work.

I choose to work behind the camera. And I kind of want to make the work and then run away. The presentation of myself really feels complicated for me.

Doubt manifests itself in indecision.

What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray.

One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.

I was stupid in a business way. I should have been greedier.

Maths? Aiyyo. You know what? I always had a love and hate relationship with the subject.

Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.

When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest.

I'm still ambivalent about Hollywood. I think that's why I made 'Star 80.' To deal with the ambivalence. I really wanted to succeed Gene Kelly, and I thought it was a fair bet.

Do you have trouble making up your mind? Well, yes or no?

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

If I didn't like her so much, I'd hate her.

Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.