Quotes About Complexity

You have to add some sort of dimension to each of your characters because everyone has their own layers.

I want to give every single character the dimensions and complexity of a main character.

There are many dimensions to Stephen A.

Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.

Since I descend just as directly from Catherine de' Medici as I do from Diane de Poitiers, I have no personal interest in damning the one while glorifying the other.

I get along very well with people - that's both an advantage and a disadvantage.

I want to show the richness of even the most disagreeable bits of life.

Economics is not a discipline that comes to correct answers - economies are too complex.

To do things that are as complicated and challenging as spaceflight, you have to have all disciplines represented to get the job done.

If you discover that a role isn't complex, you can speak to somebody about it and they'll help you push it when you're on set.

Discovering Samuel Beckett in college was a big deal for me. I realized you could be very funny and very dark at the same time.

Sometimes every single element of a character is a torturous discovery.

To effectively debate ideas and discuss complicated issues takes time.

I want to write about serious things, but I want to write about them in a way that makes them accessible to a large number of people - to take them through the argument by dramatizing the circumstances in which these issues are being discussed.

Cancer is not one disease but many diseases.

When I was 27, if I didn't put 15 things in one dish I wasn't happy.

It would be disingenuous to say I don't have some sensitivity to the seamy side of issues.

You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.

As I said many times, the fashion world, its system, can be disturbing.

When it's a bigger character, and there's a lot going on for her, and there are all these different elements that go into the character, I just love being able to dive into it.

I don't think there is enough understanding of how diverse black America actually is.

It is very difficult to make films like 'Madras Cafe' in India, given the diverse nature of the country.

It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don't. It's hard to build something that's incompletely defined.

The United States has so many laws, into the millions, that experts have lost track of just how many laws we have.