Quotes About Ambiguity

I think in a lot of romantic comedies it ends with a kiss, and I feel like in modern day relationships, and maybe just my own experience, it starts with a kiss and then all sort of falls apart and then comes together. You're texting. You're wondering what's going on. There's no definitions, there's no labels.

I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.

I think one of the things I enjoy about acting is the transformation, and part of that is certainly the physical transformation. If people are confused forever, wondering where they have seen me before, that feels like exactly where I want to live. It feels like something's working.

One day, I'll be photographing Kate Moss in Paris, then I'll be on Stephanie Seymour's ranch with her hundred horses wondering what exactly it is I'm doing there.

I was just wondering if I'd ever get a visa to go to the U.S. Probably not.

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

You don't ever really get to know Woody Allen.

Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.'

I've always thought the word cow was funny. And cows are sort of tragic figures. Cows blur the line between tragedy and humor.

'Design' is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.

The more you try to pin a word down, the more you realize that it has its own cape, sword and little hat.

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

Filmmaking, I often like to say, is like Russian roulette. You never know what you'll get. The only thing you can do is find solace in the fact that, irrespective of the film's response, you work hard to make the money you do.

I loathe categorization. I cherish my independence, and I treasure chivalry. I live just fine with ambiguity, and I welcome a good quarrel about all things designed or grown - except for when men misnomer 'confident' with 'poised' and 'passionate' with 'feisty.' I work hard.

Let me put it this way: I don't feel as settled as I look. I think that's true of everyone, probably. Except for Beyonce and Jay-Z. I don't think they wake up and think, 'Ugh, when's it going to work out for us? Why can't we catch a break?' Aside from them, I'm pretty sure everyone's life feels a lot less intentional.

I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens.

A picture can say a thousand words but maybe not the correct ones.

New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.

I like the thrill of not knowing what's happening.

When I go to a movie and can't figure it out, I'm just thrilled.

Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.

When you're making a psychological thriller, what you need to do is have an audience on shifting sand so they're never quite sure where they are.