Quotes About Complexity

I don't want a performance to give me everything. You can look at Charlotte Rampling in '45 Years,' and you don't really know what she's thinking, but you know something interesting is happening.

A lot of the characters I end up playing have a certain degree of glamour or sexiness, but I like it when you can have some other element that makes it much more interesting.

I never thought 'The Glass Castle' would be a movie. It's just too complicated.

Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.

I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didn't realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.

We always want to find good and bad guys, and I don't believe in that.

With all the main characters that I write, it's always very important to me that they have good and bad aspects of their personality. It's important to me that they're complicated and that they're human.

Everything has good and bad.

The thing that I love about 'Scandal' is every character, it's not clear if they're good or bad. Everyone is both good and bad.

The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids.

I don't believe so much in good and evil.

I'm very glad people love 'Breaking Bad,' but the harder character to write is the good character that's as interesting and as engaging as the bad guy.

I love playing roles where it's not just the good guy or the bad guy.

The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

I don't think Ripley is gay. He appreciates good looks in other men, that's true. But he's married in later books. I'm not saying he's very strong in the sex department. But he makes it in bed with his wife.

I came from a Conservatoire background where the idea of complexity was very much bound up with good music - good music was seen as complex and difficult to understand.

There are good parts and bad parts and middle parts about everybody. So what I would like to be known as is someone who was true to himself and passionate about the game.

I don't believe in good people and bad people.

I'm competitive, and I love to create challenges for myself. Maybe that's not always a good thing. It can make life complicated.

We could do good things in Afghanistan for the next 100 years and fail.

I think that the world is very complex. I think that the movie is a good way to ask questions. To give answers, you would write a lot of books.

It's both difficult and hard at the same time to deal with them, and there's hardly any reason for it.

What did he know about her, anyway? She was unfathomable. The simple fact that she countenanced Coke Rymer at all was unfathomable. All her motives were buried under the ocean.