Quotes About Ambiguity

I like anti-hero women. Negative female characters interest me.

In this industry, it's very fickle; you don't know where you are.

The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

Music is completely not reality. There's nothing about music that has any meaning at all. A lot of people disagree with that, but it's basically true. You can listen to a piece of music, and fifteen people will give you fifteen answers of what it's about.

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.

This constant feeling of, 'I have to have everything figured out' is not going to get anyone anywhere.

I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.

It's not always clear whether the filmmaker intends our alienation or is even aware of it.

I'm big into not drawing conclusions for people. I think that's what makes for the most exciting, compelling films. I get bored when the politics of the filmmaker are the subject of the film that I see.

In the world of independent filmmaking, you're never quite sure what's happening when and where.

I like clever lyrics, funny lyrics, dumb lyrics. I can never put my finger on what I like about them.

Dad had a way of defining himself. He couldn't put his finger on whether it was rock 'n' roll or country.

When you go to a shooting competition, you don't know what medal you're going to finish with.

Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

It will be difficult to finish my career here. I don't know if I am going to end it at Barcelona, although I would like to. I don't know what is going to happen.

So many things I thought I was doing have fallen apart. Until I've finished filming, I don't believe I have the job.

We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite.

Though written in the 1970s, 'Falling Angel' is firmly set in 1959.

I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one.

Where I fit in is confusing to me.

I don't mind categories, but it's so hard to find one that fits.

I don't think I've ever really fitted into the industry and the scene. I feel like I've always been on the cusp.

I'm happier on the runway than I am on the red carpet. Because then I am not being myself. I think, on the red carpet, it's a weird, like, 'Who am I? Am I me? Am I them?'