Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen.
I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.
Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.
Who can determine where one ends and the other begins?
I love the gray area between right and wrong.
Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred.
I find it interesting, the different rules that apply to journalism and drama, even though journalism has become more and more about entertainment, and entertainment has become more and more about journalism.
One of the things about the modern world is that the public and the private - which is not the same as the public and the personal - but the public and the private... it's very, very much harder than it used to be to have things that are private and things that are public.
There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.
The dreamer is a madman quiescent, the madman is a dreamer in action.
Race, to me, is a very blurry thing.
Before me floats an image, man or shade, / Shade more than man, more image than a shade.
I don't look at things in black and white. There are big gray areas. There's a lot of slippage.
You end up taking your sugar with your salt and your kicks with your kisses.
But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.
I remember a lot of dreams. Sometimes they are hard to distinguish from what has really happened. That is not so terrible. It is the same with books.
That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You’re both in the same room, yet on different sides and really, in different worlds.
In many cases, the line between a thriller and a crime novel has become too blurred to be useful.
Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.
Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.
Between the dreams of night and day there is not so great a difference.
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
And I’m not spying! I’m evaluating!” “It’s the same difference!
There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
I think everything has some politics to it. It's just whether or not it admits to it. Politics is weird. I don't even know what that means any more.
