Danila Kozlovsky Quotes

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

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 always black and white. You're not always sure you're right. At least I'm not.

Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it.

I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

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.

The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids.

Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure most people would choose white.

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

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.

War's not black and white; it's gray. If you don't fight in the gray area, you're going to lose.

If you want to be a good strategist, you can never just go off a principle you read in a book. You need to adapt what you do to the situation; no rule of thumb is true all the time.

I don't find anything black and white; I find grey in every person, and that is what excites me.

We are all somewhere or the other a little grey, not black and white. We have our imperfections.

Real life is never black and white why must the movies be?

We try to do that for stories - we try to say, 'OK, here's the message, here's the theme, here's the good people and the bad.' Life is not nearly like that.

I'm not someone who feels like I have to do it the same way. I never feel restricted. It all should grow out of different moments and if it goes completely different that's how it should go.

I never had a set of rules. Every situation is different.

I feel like the world we live in seems to be full of an increasingly grey area, but the culture that we live in seems to be getting really entrenched in black and white positions, and I think it's urgent to talk about that because it's going to kill us all.

Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray.

The gray area, the place between black and white - that's the place where life happens.

Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons. I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.

One of the things that we must do as teachers is twirl around and around, and find out what works with the situation that we're in. Our models might not work. And that twirling, changing, is part of the empowerment.