Quotes About Ambiguity

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

I don't want my work to be issue-based. I want people to be able to read it in lots of different ways.

We like love - we love love - but perhaps its only meaning lies in its ubiquitous meaninglessness. We apprehend it, we feel it, and we think we know it, yet we cannot say what we mean by it.

As a genre, the noir of post-World War II was based on characters who were weak or repellent, bound to let down us and themselves.

Elektra isn't a villain and isn't a good girl, but as Frank Miller said, she is one of the villains with a weak streak in them, and that's a failure that I tried to explore.

The only pitch I have to movie people is the same as this one: Just give me $8 million. I'm not telling you what it's about and I'm not telling you who's in it.

At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey.

I like dark places.

The plain fact is that there are no conclusions.

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

You can't plan your life. It doesn't work.

I have never decided on how to plan my career moves.

With 'Eagle of the Ninth,' every shot was extremely planned and organized. The director was like, 'Do this!' And I say, 'How was it?' and he says, 'Good.' It was very odd. I would never know where he was headed, or even if he was shooting me at a close-up or from a distance.

I never had planned for my life and my career.

I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

I'm not great at judging a career. Or planning one.

In any case, I am not a great one to make plans for the future.

People don't know what they are doing most of the time. They don't know what they want. It's only in 'the movies' that they know what their problems are and have game plans to deal with them.

In this business it's difficult to make plans. I think the plans follow you and find you.

There's a big difference between me and other YouTubers - a lot of them have big, concrete plans. I'm still this weird chicken with my head cut off. I don't know what I want to do next and haven't known that since I started.

In this business, you can't make any plans.

I don't make any plans, as life never happens according to plans.

The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.