John Tiffany Quotes

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

People will always make comparisons.

Different men often see the same subject in different lights

What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.

You can't have bad without good. You can't have right without wrong. You can't have fantastic without mundane. You need to experience all that to really earn the title of the film, 'Fantastic Four.'

What darkness to you is light to me

It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.

I'm a child of extremes.

There's a Yoruba proverb which roughly translates into, 'What turns its face to one person has turned its back on the other.' It's always made me think about how deeply subjective our experience of the world can be.

It's really rare in life that a situation is as black and white as we tend to paint it.

I'm a person of extremes. I'm usually very polar in a lot of things that I do.

If you think there is anything in theater that objectively exists without your point of view attached, you are wrong.

Utopias and dystopias can exist side by side, even in the same moment. Which one you're in depends entirely on your point of view.

We all have our own takes on things. To being yourself. The abstract, the whole thing that I play with, seems to result in seeing through your lenses, and once you express how you see things to others, you start to see there are similarities between all people. It's kind of like, no matter how far you go, you're still where you started, in a way.

I'm a mix of a 14-year-old high schooler and a 60-year-old guy. It can never fall into the 30s or the 40s. It has to be 100 percent 60 or 100 percent 14, no in between.

In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.

Let me peer out at the world through your lens. (Maybe I'll shudder, or gasp, or tilt my head in a question.) Let me see how your blue is my turquoise and my orange is your gold. Suddenly binary stars, we have startling gravity. Let's compare scintillation - let's share starlight.

The opposite of every truth is just as true.

You can see the cruelest part of the world, the cruelest part. But then on the other side, you see the most beautiful part. Do you know? It's like you go from one extreme to the next. And they're both worth it because you wouldn't see the one without the other one. But that cruel part is damn cruel and you'll never forget it. But that heaven is heaven.

I think we all see the world from our own little unique bubble.

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

Evil to some is always good to others

In a certain way, we're always toggling back and forth between the absolute and the relative, if that makes sense.

Maybe it's not as important to you as it was for me, but that's not for you to decide.