Quotes About Ambiguity

A search for justification and the impossibility of justification are recurrent motifs in the philosophy of Sartre. His philosophy is one of the incarnations of problematism and of the ambiguity of contemporary thought (for Man does seem, to the contemporary mind, to be ambiguous).

At the same time, I learned that you always lose. Only the rascals think they win.

I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.

The less manifest the work, the stronger: as though a secret law demanded it always be hidden in what it shows, thus showing what must remain hidden, only showing it, in the end, by dissimulation.

And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work-wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

There is something mysterious in this work that I do not ever what to discover.

I always thought that I was lazy because I could never tell if I was working or not. I was making things, which doesn't seem like work.

You can never plan anything, you're never guaranteed anything. As long as I'm getting the work and it's quality then I'm happy. But you never know.

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision.

I feel like metaphors are best when they spin in place. Like when they work and don't work, or lead to a bigger question.

My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner.

The people I work with are like family. I don't mean this in a nice way.

Sometimes things work out, sometimes they don't. I never know how successful a movie is going to be - when you make a movie you're always hoping for the best.

Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out.

I'm depending on other people to take the work and run. And if they run in so many directions, they sort of cancel each other out. So the meaning is always open.

If you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well.

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

T.V.s weird because its both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.

I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.

Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings - meanings which may in fact contradict each other.

The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last.

I don't like literal spaces, I don't like literal anything. I still like some kind of guess work but some pieces work and they just pop.