Quotes About Complexity

There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

People are so difficult. Give me an elephant any day.

If you ask what people say what American cuisine is, they cannot really do it. I don't know what it is.

I listen to music all the time, and I just choose things I like, or things that I've not used before. Sometimes I work with music that's very difficult - that I don't even particularly like, per se, but that is really complex or interesting.

When I was on 'The Golden Girls,' we'd have eight scenes per show. And when 'Seinfeld' came along, they went to, like, 30 scenes a show, which was revolutionary. 'Arrested Development' has probably got 60 scenes per show. It just keeps emerging as this more and more complex thing. I always try to keep it very simple at its heart.

I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.

I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters.

I've always had an interest in complicating the way that we perceive the black character, whether it's the black academic or scholar or activist or black intellectual.

Nothing would have shocked Proust more than to hear that his work was perceived as difficult or inaccessibly rarefied.

I'm 100 percent convinced that Pablo Escobar was a human being. And he was a very interesting one. For sure, he was a very, very, very mean and awful human being in many senses, but he wasn't an alien. He was a person. He had friends; people laughed at his jokes. And he was a very contradictory person as well.

Love is not complicated; people are, and that is changing the perception of love.

My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

My perception has changed from thinking if someone's in jail they're supposed to be, to there's a lot of factors that's not that simple.

I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.

There's no perfect life. There's always something going on behind the curtain that people don't know about.

We don't fall in love with perfect people. We fall in love with complex ones.

I don't really do simple. I'm not really interested in simple at the end of the day, because nothing's ever simple, and nothing's ever perfect. People certainly aren't - I would hope, anyway, because that would be boring, wouldn't it?

I don't really know a normal family. In fact, I don't know a perfect person. So, how can a family be perfect and frankly if there are any, they will be very boring like I won't want them over for dinner.

People ask me what the definition of perfection, I said it's none: there is no definition of perfection.

For any character, male or female, I think it's important to have... it's cliche to say a flawed character, but to really think about the good and the bad and make sure that both are present, and it doesn't just become a glossed over icon of perfection.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.