Life's Nuances Quotes

I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.

We all recall what is or was important to us and are astonished when it slips other people's minds. Perhaps we dismiss as irrelevant matters of crucial concern to those we love. That's life as most of us experience it, and which few movies document with such understated acuity as 'Boyhood' does.

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

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

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

Real life is far more complicated than fiction.

Somewhat dramatic things happen, and you don't even always notice them — that's what life is.

Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.

I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.

I always think that's really lazy, when I'm watching a TV show or a movie or something, and there's a flashback and the idea is, 'This one moment is the reason that everything happened. This character saw this guy, and this guy said this thing to him, and that's why he is this way.' Because I think in real life, it's not so one-to-one.