Paul Dano Quotes

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.

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.

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.

We don't live in a world that's black and white.

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

I tend to look for the good in bad people and the bad in good people, to make them human. 'Cause I don't think that people generally are that black and white. Maybe in movie-land they can be... but that isn't necessarily all there is.

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.

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

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

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

The old world was good guys and bad guys. The new world is gray guys.

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

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

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.

At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey.

Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done.

I don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or bad; as in life, most people are a mixture.

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.

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

Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

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.

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.

I don't believe in bad and good, I believe we are all a mix of both.