Quotes About Complexity

Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives.

I've known Dennis Kucinich for a long time, and I don't think I have illusions about him. Sometimes I find him pompous, male chauvinistic, intellectually unbending. But he is a good man, and a serious one.

The Bible is filled with intriguing stories about complex and flawed human beings who ponder immense moral questions and engage in colossal clashes with evil.

We know a certain amount about neurons. You can do fMRI and watch parts of the brain light up. But what happens in the middle is poorly understood.

I'm aware that people enjoy creating categories that make it easier to digest pop culture or the media or entertainment or whatever. But I really have too much to do to fit into any easy category.

I often use the same harmonies as pop music because the complexity of what I do is elsewhere.

I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.

I enjoy taking on complex, difficult characters and have always striven to capture the truth of those people, whether or not it's popular.

If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

It's better to play negative lead roles than portray just any other character on the show.

It is very easy to play a sweet girl-next-door but difficult to portray a grey character.

In Hollywood, there is one dominant voice. It is a white, male, straight gaze. When I talk about positive portrayals of black people and women, I'm saying complexity. I'm not saying goody-two-shoes, everything's okay. No. The positive view of me is to see me as I am: the 'good,' the 'bad,' the gray. That is a positive portrayal.

The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.

I don't think I can play a role without falling in love with something about her; even the most despicable people who I have portrayed had some aspect of them which I found beautiful.

I'm portrayed as this tough broad, but I'm not.

Young people deserve to be portrayed with depth.

I never want to make any characters one-dimensional, especially as women can often be portrayed as the dark one or the evil one.

The characters I've always been drawn to are real and flawed. That's not how women have always been portrayed.

I don't want to fall into any single category. I don't want to be known for portraying drunks or heavies or saints.

The more you put out there, the more you have to resolve. 'Air' is the most literary comic I've written so far, and that poses problems.

In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get.

Any clear-thinking person should be able to engage in nuanced thinking when it comes to complex political positions.

I always hate taking categorical positions.