Quotes About Complexity

Families are endlessly fascinating. We all have one, and they have a great impact on who we are and what we do - Freudian as that is.

It's the murkiness of humanity that I find endlessly fascinating.

Either we learn to live together and embrace the complexity of life, or we will end up with fascism again and destroy ourselves.

I like the yin-yang of a cop's life, where he's part fascist and part saint. That's where the good dramas are.

I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.

I like characters who have faults. I'm drawn to darker people.

Favorite movie lists are impossible for me to do.

The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

Even if it's a national issue, the federal government cannot provide all the answers.

If you walk out of a movie that's meant to be about race in our country, and you're feeling good and happy, then that movie didn't tell you all of the truth. It's too big of an issue, and it's too complicated for you to feel good. It's something you should feel like you need to talk about.

It's hard for me to put my feelings into words.

I'm not sassy all day every day. I have levels and feelings.

To the extent that we have a better understanding of the brain, we will have a richer appreciation of ourselves, of our fellow men and of society and, in fact, of the whole world and its problems.

We now know that sex is complicated enough that we have to admit nature doesn't draw the line for us between male and female, or between male and intersex and female and intersex; we actually draw that line on nature.

I've always had difficulties with female characters.

It's not often you get female characters who don't fit into a box.

All too often, female characters, in particular, aren't multi-layered enough.

Often, female characters are quite one dimensional, especially in a two hour film; television gives characters room to breathe and develop.

I like anti-hero women. Negative female characters interest me.

I just love strong female characters in general, not necessarily because, 'She's evil' or 'Oh, because she's good.'

Yugant' is not a feminist film at all. It shows how the disintegration of the marital relationship is part of a greater disintegration all around of us of ecology and values.

People think that it is negative, but in fact, chaos can be very fertile.

I like to have a few things going on at once. It feels natural.

The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.