Michael Winterbottom Quotes

I've always noticed talking about lyrics is like talking about a duality. It's like a Gemini time every time I talk about one line. Because each line, of course, means different things to different people, millions of interpretations. With me, I always see two sides. I just see things split into two.

All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.

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

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.

Two sides of the same coin, but which side is which?

It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.

It means we're looking one way, while following another. We're for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions are different.

All cases are unique and very similar to others.

Different reactions while film test screening doesn't mean even the audience thinks ambiguity is a bad thing. But if you're asking them right away to start checking things off, they don't know what to do. I think at their best, it applies to when the audience knows what it is. Then, when they say, "Oh, well, I thought it was too boring in blah-blah-blah part," then you better pay attention to it. It's like going for the hamburger. Better be the good hamburger I went for.

He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

Next time you meet a 'foreigner', remember it's only like a window with a different shape to it and the person who's sitting inside is you.

I always think that there is the good and the bad of it all.

Anything is possible, and the truth is any human being at any given moment, no matter how good they are - not only at their job but also as a person - they're capable of anything, and it's not always a conscious thing.

Truth is always paradoxical.

There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded.

That’s the thing about life, he knew. There was always a but.

We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.

Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.

History repeats itself and History never repeats itself are about equally true.

The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.

I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:"Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor".

Surely life has taught you that a thing can be both beautiful and vile.