Quotes About Complexity

Can I actually make a difference? Can I get people to believe in politics once again? Can I get people to accept more complex answers to complex questions? I know I can. I know that's what I do very well.

There are always different roles and questions to be asked about certain characters.

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

We're so quick to go to make things black and white, and to put things in their box. But everything is this mixture - and that's what this world is - is this blend of different things.

I love taking people on that journey, which I feel like can open them up to seeing human beings a little more complexly. People that you originally don't like, maybe they have reasons for the way they are, and maybe we can start to understand each other a little better as opposed to being quick to judge and dismiss people.

Far from the quick and easy exit that Leave campaigners once promised, Brexit has become mired in its own internal contradictions.

I'm not sure you can do anything quickly or easily with the North.

Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.

It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.

Quirky is what a guy would call a girl he doesn't understand.

I want to do interesting characters with depth, which are a part of great stories. In fact, if the character is quirky and challenging, that's even better.

I don't expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.

Land is a very broad as well as a complex issue, and it has to be handled very delicately because around land, there is quite a lot of emotion.

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

I love how deceptively simple 'love interest' is, you know? Because it encompasses quite a lot, when you think about it.

It's taken me quite some time to convince people that I can do shades of grey, and I've finally broken that ground.

Five years before 'Port of Miami,' I was to a point where I may have even felt like quitting... the style and the wordplay of my lyricism was more complex than what Miami was used to.

Race, to me, is a very blurry thing.

We have a problem with dealing with race in our country. We have a problem with dealing with marriage equality and equality in general. These are complex, divisive issues in our society, and I think that the only way we further this conversation is to take them down to a very human scale.

The big, radical thing that I'm trying to do is to portray Latinas as complex human beings.

As in all matters involving love, which has so many different meanings, you find that the feeling that we label 'love' is not a simple feeling, it's a very complex one. Under the heading 'love' can come all sorts of rage and desperation.

We must do our best to raise the public awareness of the past in all its richness and complexity.

My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.