Quotes About Ambiguity

I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode.

The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.

I don't quite fit in in like a pure dramatic thing, but I still think of myself sometimes as sort of a dramatic actress.

Most of us don't confront pure anything. What our life does involve is a whole lot of 60/40 and 70/30.

It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil.

It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.

I'm not foreign enough to play foreigners... I have sort of a mid-Atlantic British accent that puts me in the middle of everything, so they don't know quite where to put me.

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

Sometimes you do films that work really well and sometimes you do a film and you fall flat on your face. Sometimes things work, sometimes things don't work, you never know. I don't think there is any explanation to something like that.

I'm flattered by the fact that most people tell me they don't know what my politics are.

I look for characters that are extremely flawed and the anti-hero.

I'll flip samples where one's a completely dark song and the next one is a complete sexual song. People think my whole thing is a dark thing, but I don't.

I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do the music and if people like it, they like it.

You never know why a film gets accepted and why it doesn't. I have learnt to just go with the flow.

I think a lot of people want stories or lives to have very distinct beginnings, middles, and endings. Generally, I think things are a little more fluid than that.

It's impossible to know what happens in the fog of war.

Late '90s, early 2000s, Rob was in a definite fog.

I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.

You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.

Under each formula lies a corpse.