Quotes About Ambiguity

There was the anxiety that one day would not follow the next, combined with the certainty that it would.

C'era una donna, una traduttrice, che voleva essere un'altra persona. Non c'era un motivo chiaro. Era sempre stato così.

My double, seen from behind, explains something to me: that I'm me and also someone else, that I'm leaving and also staying. This realization momentarily jostles my melancholy, like a current that stirs the branches, that discomfits the leaves of a tree.

on the surface of the Grand Canal, my writing in Italian is something impalpable. Nebulous, like the fog. I'm afraid that the bridge between me and Italian doesn't, ultimately, exist. That it will remain, at best, a chimera.

As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn't come with easy answers.

Sometimes you just feel like you could work forever on something and never know when it's done.

One of the things I find most mysterious in Picasso's work is what I would call the 'unlocation of place.

Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't, it's not so obvious.

One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work.

In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty.

Movies work, in my opinion, on the best level when they're more enigmatic, when we don't say it's this or that and where it raises more questions than answers.

For some it is love undeniably. For others it is making it work, never actually knowing what it is.

If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive

You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that will lift or be broken.

I don't know. I can't tell the future I just work there.

I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither here nor there.

Work is a way of shutting out ambiguous sentiment.

Usually when you meet with a director, just meeting them after you've seen something you're interested in, they say, "Oh I'd love to work together," and sometimes you never hear from them again.

I choose to work behind the camera. And I kind of want to make the work and then run away. The presentation of myself really feels complicated for me.

Bak stood a moment, as though considering whether the sum total of their shared working life was ending in a minus or a plus.

If you agree to work for us, half the time you won't know the purpose of your duties . . . and when we do explain, we might not be telling the truth. But that's the real world, folks . . .

What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray.

Certainly, in college, I had no idea what I wanted to do, I studied art history and had a great time, but I didn't have any sort of career aspirations.

It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present.