Ambiguous Narrative Quotes

The ifs and buts of history...form an insubstantial if intoxicating diet.

Things either become unclear in a story or they're just ambiguous with no real point. So defined gray area with clarity that also works in the narrative, that's tricky.

In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.

Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.

'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book.

The guys that write Once Upon a Time were major writers on Lost, and we had lunch when I started on OUAT and the first thing I said to them was, "I spent five years on Lost, you have to tell me, was my character good or bad?" They looked at me and said, "We have no idea." That's why you have to make your own backstory. I decided Widmore was the evilest of the evil, but in the end, not even the writers knew.

'Twin Peaks' is one of those Rorschach ink blot things, where everybody finds their own favorite thing.

'Dhalgren' is the kind of book in which you can look for pretty much anything you want. I tried to put as much into it as I could at the time.

The stuff I like watching is the stuff that leaves you with a lot of questions when it's finished.