Quotes About Ambiguity

I don't really do that much office work. I just go to the office, and I'm like Steve Carell in 'The Office.' You know, like, I just go around and like - I don't know what I do in the office. I look at paperwork and act like I'm understanding what's going on there, and I shake my head and put my hand on my chin and like, 'Hmm.'

On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from.

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone.

I couldn't say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

So now my road map has changed and I don't have a really clear idea of what the next stops are.

I have an incredible sense of direction, but London is confusing. It's a circle, but then it stops being a circle.

'Macbeth' is an amazing story.

I'm not representing anyone - not Israelis, not Palestinians - I'm just a storyteller trying to raise more questions than give answers.

Broadchurch' was all about shades of grey, both in characters and storytelling, and I wanted to see that through to the end.

If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.

I purposely adopted a style in my storytelling wherein I don't have to explain everything or why the story is moving in a particular way.

My definitions of comedy, drama, and straight man are all blurry for me. I don't think of it in those terms.

Where I'm at in my relationship with my wife or my family and life in general, I feel like it all comes out in the music. Hopefully, it's always there, but in an ambiguous and abstract way and not real straightforward.

Reality isn't straightforward or easily accessible.

What I love about 'The Good Wife' is that it's not straightforward.

It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.

I have to say, though, it's a little strange doing both because Durant is very straight and stern and austere.

As always, there's a couple of things in the pipeline - but that pipeline is a strange and ambiguous place.

Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect.

Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That's good.

As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.

I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.

We human beings are very dark, strange things.