Quotes About Ambiguity

I can never say 'why' about anything I do. I suppose I can say 'how' and 'when' and 'what.' But 'why' is impenetrable to me.

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

The world is so mysterious, and there's so many social interactions where I have no idea what I'm supposed to do - what's being asked of me, what's expected of me.

There are no road signs to help navigate. And, in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're supposed to be on.

As to whether the people who were supposedly to put up the money and did put it up or whether it was Arthur's own money is something which I shall never know.

You just never know what the Supreme Court is going to do.

I never want to be in the business of predicting what the U.S. Supreme Court will do.

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

People want to see something they're not sure they should be seeing.

I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.

To me, nothing ever feels like a sure thing. I cling to that because it's very important you don't ever think anything is a sure thing.

L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.

If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more.

Surprise is not humor. I think that there can be a fine line there.

I understand, as an artist as well as a producer, the need for there to be mystery and surprise.

My ideas are not meant to suggest dreams or reality, but a surreal quality.

The idea of my fashion shows is that you can't understand where you are; it's something surreal.

Now, the story makes no reference to specific years—it uses that eighteen-followed-by-a-dash business which writers were so fond of in those days, I've never understood why

What good are insights? They only make things worse.

The past is unclear. It's as if there is a film over those early years. I can't even be sure that the things I remember happening really happened to me.

Maybe once, maybe years ago, I was a different kind of human being. I've forgotten, I don't know for sure.

He did not know what to do. Not just now, he thought, not just in this, not just about this, today and tomorrow, but every day on the earth.

The nights are very unclear here. But if the moon is full, we know it. We feel one thing one minute, something else the next.