Matt Reeves Quotes

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

Good can exist in bad, and bad can exist in good. It's not black and white.

We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.

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

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

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

The most interesting thing about being alive is that there is no black and white; there are many shades of gray.

Things aren't black and white in the world.

It's rare that movies can sort of capture the tone of life; movies always feel like they have to be one thing or another.

We're so quick to go to make things black and white, and to put things in their box. But everything is this mixture - and that's what this world is - is this blend of different things.

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.

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

To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.

Nobody is all good or all bad.

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

Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.

There are very few really stark black and white stories.

Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad.

My books tend to have a lot of questions in them, and they tend to avoid black and white, for lack of a better metaphor.

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

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

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

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'