Quotes About Complexity

For me, what really excites me about my characters and what pushes their core is the kind of dark, sad side of life.

We are all multidimensional and kind of have dual personalities. Everyone puts on different roles depending on what circumstances they're in without even noticing that they do that.

There are so many male antiheroes but not nearly as many female antiheroes.There's a lot of pressure on female characters to be likable. That puts a lot of pressure on women to be likable.

The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It's either 'rawk' or it's not. We Brits putter around in the grey area.

I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.

I just love characters that are complex, that you can dig into and keep itching the scratch and never quite be satisfied because they have enough going on with them that it's like a giant puzzle.

I have restaurants, bookshops... but it's not an empire, more... a puzzle. If it were an empire, all my restaurants would be the same.

I'm a puzzle doer.

I run away from the one who is good on paper - the one who has it all together - and I run toward the one that's more complicated, and who I can fix and we can work on it together.

People have these ideas about comic books and their adaptations as flashy and sort of surface-y, broad-strokes-type projects, but they're not, really.

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

If there's anything consistent about my work, it's not flat.

Well, I like characters, players with personality, I don't like flat people.

It's not easy to tell a life story in two-and-a-half hours flat.

I look for characters that are extremely flawed and the anti-hero.

I'm a human. Every human is flawed. I might be flawed in different ways than some people, or worse ways than some people, or better ways than some people.

It's fun to play people who are flawed.

Look at history; all the interesting women were deeply flawed.

It's hard to find female leads that are flawed and interesting and dynamic.

I like flawed characters very much. A lot of times I get asked to do parts that are kind of small but key - three-scene roles that are three kick-ass scenes. Growing up, watching as many movies as I did, I was always into character actors like that.

I cotton to the idea that people are much closer to being flawed; they have problems and don't always make the right choices.

I'll never get bored of seeing flawed women on the screen.

I think flawed characters are important, because no one is perfect.

Everybody is flawed, not just men.