Quotes About Uncertainty

Where we are going as a species is a big question. Human evolution certainly hasn't stopped. Every time individuals produce a new zygote, there's a reshuffling and recombination of genes. And we don't know where all of that is going to take us.

I have never stopped considering not becoming a writer.

I had 'Breaking In' at Fox, and that was a constant stopping and starting of getting canceled and picked up again.

You've got to dream. You've got to believe, that's what I've done all my life. I'm rolling with it at the minute. It seems like it's not stopping. Who knows where it will end?

When you do everything you can to be an F1 driver and suddenly it stops, it's not painful but it's definitely not something you were looking for.

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

I don't know what is in store for the movie business any better than anybody else does, but it does seem like my kind of movies are a little trickier than it used to be - or maybe a lot trickier.

All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined future obsoletes like an ice cream melting on the way back from the corner store.

You can't change what time has in store for you, as the only constant that I've known is change.

Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the next storm will arise.

We are facing a storm that most of us have long feared.

A lot of times when you're making a record, you put your head down and charge forward until you're done. You just hope that the ideas hold up, because you're kind of lost in your own storm.

You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.

You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.

You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading.

I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.

It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.

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

After 20 years of writing academic prose and lectures, it seems very familiar and straightforward to me. Writing a novel for the first time, I was reminded of just how difficult it is to figure out how to get this stuff done when you don't really know what you're doing.

Brexit has been a strain on all of us. In some ways it has paralysed us.

I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis.

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

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.

This is a strange game.