Quotes About Complexity

What, for me, was exciting about America was just this extraordinary, complex, difficult, fascinating country, and Britain can feel very small. London, in particular, feels small because everything happens there, so you have publishing, politics, you have finance; everything in Britain happens in London.

Puerto Rico is complicated. The people are complicated. The history is complicated. The story of the United States' relationship to Puerto Rico is complicated.

My grandfather was extremely dark and from Puerto Rico, but his brother had blond hair and blue eyes. There are so many different shades, and I think Hollywood has yet to realize that.

You pull anyone from an alien planet down to Earth, and you want to show them great work, show them Tywin Lannister on 'Game of Thrones.' I mean, it's just as good as it gets.

When a character does something appalling but you still want to root for them, I find that the most exciting challenge to play, if you can pull it off. You're not supposed to like it, but you can't help it.

No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.

I don't know anyone who's 100 percent pure - nor do I have any interest in portraying anyone like that.

There are no black and white, good or bad characters in 'Game Of Thrones,' but Joffrey was an exception. Just pure evil.

I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode.

I don't think there is only one Arab culture or a pure Arabness. We are very multiple, especially our generation, which is very multilayered.

The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.

Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek model is not some lost idea of philosophy's pure essence, but the idea that philosophy is mixed up with everything else.

I don't have answers for anybody else. What I know is that internal complexity makes for superficiality. There's never essentially a pure story unless there's a pure product line that has its own shining clarity.

There's now, for the first time, a huge gulf between the artefacts of our everyday life and what even a single expert, let alone the average child, can comprehend. The gadgets that now pervade young people's lives, iPhones and suchlike, are baffling 'black boxes' - pure magic to most people.

I went looking for embodiments of pure evil, but found ordinary people.

Most of us don't confront pure anything. What our life does involve is a whole lot of 60/40 and 70/30.

Motherhood is not only something very pure and very full of love, it can be full of dark things, too.

To me, St. Lucia isn't just purely feel-good; there are these other juxtaposed elements as well.

It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil.

To me, a purely good individual or purely bad individual, that's a comic book - that's a fantasy - and I don't do fantasy.

I wanted to show people that I don't just make love songs that are about purely being in love.

I don't think anyone is purely evil or purely brilliant, certainly for Prince Charles.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

I do get a little disheartened when you hear about how many girls get discouraged to not pursue a career in the sciences, and I feel like seeing women that are portrayed in this way - and beyond that, just three dimensional, complicated women - those are always going to be the stories that I gravitate to most.