Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey.
To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.
I'm conservative on some things, and I'm not on others.
It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.
Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.
Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.
one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.
Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do - honesty but subtlety.
'English Vinglish' is simple; that's why people like it. The film has simplicity and sensitivity. There is no melodrama. Some things have been conveyed just through expressions and no lines.
There's no good guys and bad guys.
'No Burden' is not necessarily ferocious.
Even when “both sides” are presented in the media, seldom are the reasons for each side presented.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
I'm an enemy of exposition. I feel there's no need to overstate.
You don't have people who are monsters and only do bad. There's good and bad for everybody. It's all a spectrum.
Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
'LOL' is one of several texting expressions that convey nuance in a system where you don't have the voice and face to do it the way you normally would.
For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.
Why does it have to be so cut-and-dried? In your view, I either have to hate them or be in league with them. There’s a middle ground, you know. I can still be loyal to the Alchemists and on friendly terms with vampires and dhampirs.
The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.
If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals.
Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.
You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something.
If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching.
