Quotes About Ambiguity

As an actor, so much of life is out of your control, and it's really not solid.

I used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But what I learned from Kurt Vonnegut was that I could write stories that say I may not have a solution, but this is wrong - that's good enough.

Solutions are not the answer.

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

Shakespeare did not consider himself the legislator of mankind. He faithfully records man's problems and does not evidently propose to solve them.

Sometimes, it feels artificial to try to come up with a solution to something that none of us know how to solve.

I love creating mysteries, but I am terrible at solving them.

I will be honest, and I have no shame in saying that after 'Kai Po Che!', I did not get chances. Some people didn't understand what to give me, and some people went out of the way to not give me work.

Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly.

Some things in literature are inexplicable.

In life, some things don't always work out the way you plan them.

There was no precedent. If I asked somebody, 'What do you expect me to do?' they all looked blank. They had no idea; nobody had much idea.

I can't get into specifics. Someday, hopefully, I'll be able to.

It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow, that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.

There's definitely some parallels between me and Joaquin Phoenix, I think. The line gets so blurry. My rap career wasn't a hoax, but it was absolutely intended to be a joke. The problem was that I really was on a quest to somehow be a Caucasian Ol' Dirty Bastard.

Well, when you do something like Rocky which is indefinable somehow, it always becomes difficult to lose that.

The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers.

An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.

How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?

the kiss and the bite are such close cousins that in the heat of love they are too readily confounded

He couldn't tell Zeke how they would be tomorrow, because he didn't know that answer yesterday, did he?

I have yet to discover if you will be my salvation or my demise.

The only thing that feels right is as wrong as it can get

He was the most beautiful boy I had ever seen in my life. But he really looked like a girl. She was the most beautiful boy I'd ever seen in my life.