Quotes About Complexity

I grew up as a Christian, and one of the many things in Christian mythology that did not dovetail with real life is that human beings are not monochromatic in their being.

A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good.

Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.

Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view.

It's always good to be able to identify with the characters that you're watching and not just easily put them in the bad box or the good box. They're real people that you care about, and you invest in their journey.

We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, they can't get anywhere near as complex as a real person.

I like to play people that are real, a real person, and then something that's interesting with that person. I think it's a lot more challenging to do that than something that's extremely fantasy-like.

The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but it will never feel right to us.

The truth is that Africa is like everywhere else. There are poor areas, there are rich areas, there is a middle class. Some of those areas are bigger in one country than another, and some countries have real problems that they're working through. But there's great people, good people and a small percentage of bad people - just like everywhere else.

I must admit that i am fascinated by the glories of ancient India. But when will the purveyors of Indian culture realise that not everything about our past was glorious?

People are much more interesting than people realise.

One must realise that it is not a child's play to run a government.

I listen to other people's stuff and, more and more, you realise how much is layered and how many different guitar parts there are.

It's just this feeling of when you're a kid, you have these ideas about the world and about people in your life that don't always hold up as you get older and start to realise that things are more complex than you might've realised. That's always a big part of a coming-of-age story.

'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one person. It led me to read a lot of Russian literature.

I've realised that when I don't play people who are complex I get very, very bored, and then lazy, and end up being rubbish.

I realised that identity always seemed to be an issue when it was challenged - thats when it seemed to be most in 3D, so that you could look at it.

Trivially speaking, ecological awareness means realising that beings are interconnected in some way, but then we have to figure out what this interconnection actually means.

I'm in the game of realism so happy endings probably feel a little bit too neat for life.

My responsibility is to present things in a way that is realistic and true to the multifaceted world I've known... This is how I think the world is, not how it should be.

I love playing characters who are multilayered and multidimensional and have a darkness to them, which makes them more realistic and more fun to play.

It's so important for us to write complex, realistic women because that's what we are.

With realistic and deglamourised roles and live sound, the charisma of a star is not enough. Can you be many different people?

What's cool about 'Insecure' is it's very realistic and nuanced.