Tavi Gevinson Quotes

I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

Be obscure clearly.

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

I'm a walking contradiction. I am funny that way.

In any case, I would never make a film that was only one thing. Even if it's my warmest, most romantic film, I still want it to have the more cynical view of things, showing the irony and absurdity of things that we consider normal.

I like to ride the line between absurd and sincere.

It's all very simple, or else it's all very complex, or perhaps it's neither, or both.

It's a funny old world.

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction between them.

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?'

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

I find that very appealing: the blurring of the lines between what's funny and what's tragic. And what's ordinary and what's not - the big things in the small things.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

There are two words for everything.

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

In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.

I'm nothing if not a tangled, colorful ball of contradictions.

In general, I like contradictions and complex situations.

On one level, I am a massive joker and can't take anything seriously, but on the other hand, I'm incredibly serious and a deep thinker, so I have that dichotomy within me.

That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to.

I think it's common to want to label things as all good or all bad and what I'm finding is that every situation, person, event, has good and bad in it.

I have two answers to everything and one answer to nothing.