Robert Redford Quotes

Everything in life is gray, you know.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

The color of truth is gray.

There are gray areas in everything.

For nothing was simply one thing.

Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

I don't look at things in black and white. There are big gray areas. There's a lot of slippage.

There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

People who want to see things in stark dualities are not going to get much out of my music.

I love telling stories, but I also am more aware now of how complex reality is and how difficult it is to really explain what happened or how I felt. Maybe that sometimes makes me a little bit vague, because I don't want to really put my finger on anything or set it in stone.

Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.

It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because of what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are too many parts, sides, crosscurrents, nuances; too many gestures, which could mean this or that, too many shapes which can never be fully described, too many flavors, in the air or on the tongue, half-colors, too many.

Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.

When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.

When you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

We don't live in a world that's black and white.

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.