Kim Ki-duk Quotes

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

It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow

Life is not black and white when it comes to perception.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

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

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

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

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

The way I work, things are very nuanced; not everything is explained.

History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.

I guess the role of art is to make something that is ambiguous and complex.

It all depends what you mean by.

There is always room for at least two truths.

I would never feel confident enough to express my views and opinions as the right ones because I just don't think that's possible. There are so many sides to everything that nobody is right or wrong.

I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.

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.

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.

The more you try to pin a word down, the more you realize that it has its own cape, sword and little hat.

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.