Quotes About Complexity

Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.

Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.

You have to be careful so you don't make your character dull and predictable. Sometimes you have to bend the script a little... The bad guys are mostly the same on the paper... A bad guy wouldn't think of himself as bad.

I'm not a predictable black liberal.

I remember, as a kid, thinking more about, you know, watching the world go by and being amazed by how both complex but consistent and elegant it was. You know, why, you know, when you put that cold glass of water on the table, it kind of warms up at a very predictable way.

In New York, I much prefer playing older because as characters get older, they get more interesting.

There's more depth to Lionel. What I am finding so interesting about playing him is there's all these different layers. I prefer playing Lionel because he's a human being.

I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.

I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity.

Just as an audience member, I've always preferred dark things and very heavy, emotional things.

The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.

I'm definitely interested in exploring human contradictions. Contradictions are what make us human - it's what defines us as human beings. Contradictions are what make characters interesting, and I've been lucky to be presented with characters who have a lot of contradictions.

I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view.

O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible.

Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.

There was a feeling during the years of George W. Bush's presidency that his gracelessness as well as his appetite for war were linked to his impatience with complexity. He acted 'from the gut,' and was economical with the truth until it disappeared.

There's a dangerous bottom-lining, and super-summarizing that happens in a lot of our press and our media, and sort of our politicians' talking points, that's dangerously simple. I don't know a better way to say it. And there's usually a lot more complicated facts going on than what is quoted and quotable.

Where do I really belong? I avoid saying everywhere - which switches all too easily to nowhere. Instead, when pressed, I call myself a fractalist.

We must resist the pressures of others to soundbite our complicated, nuanced experiences.

Everything which is good in life is dicey, including pretty girls.

I'm more than a fighter and not just a pretty face.

I think the danger with the liberal Left is seeing the Republican Party as a monolith.

Everybody has their own agenda, and that makes 'Power' a dark world. There aren't any really clean characters.

I think we all have light and dark inside us.