Sarah Jeffery Quotes

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

No human being in history was all good or all bad, or all black or all white.

I don't think anybody's all good or all bad.

Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

There are gray areas in everything.

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.

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

There are many movies which come with an attitude of black and white. I am good and you are bad. And there are many movies that are also trying to see the reality as it is or to discover what really is behind the character or events.

Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.

There's a dark side to everything.

Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad.

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

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

No one is all good or all bad, and there's many different ways to go about your life.

Nobody is all good or bad.

It's very true that you can be both selfless and selfish at the same time. What we tend towards, particularly in filmmaking, is this binary sort of, 'This is a good guy, this is a bad guy.' And I quite like the fact that life is a bit more complex than that.

Mike and I are always drawn to the idea that there is light and dark inside every being, rather than the old two-dimensional trope of good versus evil.

We are all somewhere or the other a little grey, not black and white. We have our imperfections.

It's really rare in life that a situation is as black and white as we tend to paint it.

Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.