Jesse Ball Quotes

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

There is no simple answer to what I think.

Life is complicated, and art has the right to be complicated, too. I don't like films that simplify.

The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.

Certainty is missing the point entirely.

Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.

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

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.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

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.

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

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

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.

When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.

The color of truth is gray.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

When it comes to politics, there's never a certain yes or no to any situation.

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

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

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