Quotes About Ambiguity

I like being out on a limb and not know what we're doing and why: just deal with it, the mayhem, you know?

I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

I don't want to put meaning on what I do because I don't know what it is.

I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant.

It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.

It's hard to get a rhythm when you don't know what's going to happen for you night in and night out.

I am not only neither Christian nor Jewish, but said to be in between, and I feel the same way about being from the South and being from the North. I write with my left hand but I throw a ball with my right hand.

You know sometimes you're in a position of risk and you feel that you can turn good or bad.

I didn't really have a road map ever.

We love telling stories about characters who you root for, even though they sometimes make it really hard for you to root for them and the choices they make.

Every time someone asks me where I'm from, I'm not sure how to answer that question... so I say I have no roots.

When someone says, 'How long do you see yourself captaining for?' you don't really know.

I have a scary side of me.

I like the idea of shows where I don't know where I'll be at the end of the season.

If I'm put in a situation where I am not really sure what's going to happen, it can be overwhelming. I get a bit anxious.

I'm a huge walking oxymoron. People think they're going to get something that's a lot different from what they get.

You couldn't define the '80s when the '80s were happening. We kept changing. We had shoulder pads, then we didn't. It was revealing, and then it was decoration. It was a lot of things at once. It was defined when it was over.

There is a shadow on every page.

The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a mystery - you'll do pages and pages of scenes that will never make it onto the screen.

When I see an image in my head that compels me, where there's this mystery about what's going to happen next or could happen next, I'll be intrigued. There are so many scripts that you read, and you know exactly what's going to happen, and there aren't too many where you can't tell within the first 20 pages where it's going.

I don't really plan ahead very far. I have never known what I'm doing more than a few pages ahead.

When I first looked at 'Travesties,' I thought, 'I don't know what to make of the first page of this, let alone 80 pages.' But I just thought, 'Well, I'll go along for the audition because I love all the people involved.'

The future has never been something that I've been able to plan. Every time I try - I don't care if it's three or four days ahead or a week ahead - it just doesn't pan out.

It's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.