Quotes About Ambiguity

The songs I write are about searching, and they're ambiguous - always to be understood in different ways.

When you're friends with someone, you can't just go out to dinner and say 'O.K., now this is a date.' You've got to do something very different.

We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.

The lesson was an Absa Cape Epic can go all directions: to the good and to the bad.

'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.

There's something very bizarre about having a father who has disappeared. It's very hard to articulate.

I do love 'The Turn of the Screw' - I just think that one's always so disturbing.

The dividing line between wish and need was never clear.

It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don't. It's hard to build something that's incompletely defined.

People always ask you, 'Are you like brother and sister? Are you like a married couple?' It's really original and it can't really be explained.

There are no explanations, there are no answers.

I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.

It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

I didn't say Facebook could not enter China, but nor did I say that it could.

I think people have all faced decisions at times where you never know.

I feel like I'm always trying to make a movie about the Two Faced Man in some way.

There's no right or wrong, success or failure.

I feel like 'Just.me' is not successful, but it is not a failure.

I don't even know what 'successful' means. We're all failures. Look at the world. We're all complicit.

In the late '70s, I was falling into the middle lane. I was way too country to be rock, and way too rock to be a country act.

Even though 'Aaranya Kaandam' wasn't successful or seen by many people, it has an aura around it. It's a false aura, but it has helped me get things done.

I'm on the sockless and un-sockless teams. I'm on both sides.

I think that it's possible to have someone who is an anti-hero, who does tear hearts out and break necks, and you can still relate to him on a certain level.