Barry Levinson Quotes

Everything in life is gray, you know.

Water is good, but if you have too much, you drown. So is water bad, or is it good? It's both.

Nobody is all good or all bad.

No one is all good or all bad, and there's many different ways to go about your life.

So much good, so much evil. Just add water.

A master sees the bad in the good, and the good in the bad.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

There are many movies which come with an attitude of black and white. I am good and you are bad. And there are many movies that are also trying to see the reality as it is or to discover what really is behind the character or events.

I think everybody has a good and bad side.

No human being in history was all good or all bad, or all black or all white.

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.

I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'

I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.

There are two words for everything.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

Even a sheet of paper has two sides.

I think that there's a little bit of bad in all of us.

For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

Everything has good and bad.

Is it good or bad?" she asked Issa. The wrong question, she knew. She just couldn't help herself. "It's both, sweet girl," said Issa. "like everything.

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.

There are two sides to every question.