Saskya Pandita Quotes

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

Is it good or bad?" she asked Issa. The wrong question, she knew. She just couldn't help herself. "It's both, sweet girl," said Issa. "like everything.

A master sees the bad in the good, and the good in the bad.

Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.

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

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.

It took me a long time to learn both good and bad can exist simultaneously.

I think the most interesting characters are those in which you can see both sides.

My aim is to be as open and as incomprehensible as possible. There has to be a perfect balance between open and shut.

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 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 don't really trust nobody.

It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow, that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.

He that believes all misseth; he that believes nothing, hits not.

You have begun to separate the dark from the dark.

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

Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend && Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy

If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal.

The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs; that they contain, and sometimes embrace, their opposites; that success may involve failure of a different kind, and failure may be a kind of triumph.

Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue.

Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.

There's two heads to every coin.

Always seek the general and never quite trust it.

There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.

Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.