Quotes About Complexity

We can't constantly tell stories of heroes. We have to hear the other stories, too, about people in dire straits who make bad choices.

History contains heroes, but no one is a hero entirely, and no one is a hero for very long.

I think people like to see a little larceny in their heroes.

I don't really like heroes who always behave heroically. That's not interesting to me.

I'm always much more interested in flawed heroes than in perfect ones.

I think heroes who are not flawed are not believable.

Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.

I guess I'm always drawn to the underbelly of someone, really, as opposed to how heroic they are. I don't judge those sorts of people.

I think we are drawn to anti-heroes because that is what most of us are most of the time and it is good to see that we are heroic.

I like characters who aren't typically heroic and come to some sort of epiphany about themselves.

I play characters that allow me to do lot more than just be a glamorous heroine.

In most of my stories, I give a lot of importance to heroines. My heroines are not just glamour dolls.

Young action heroines feel in service of male gaze, rather than being the full complexity of a human being.

That was the beauty of 'Roseanne' and Roseanne herself. It could go dark; it could do issues.

I always try to look for the hidden face of the character, the hidden face that we all have.

Americans are hidden dragons to me.

Meeting at our fault lines is much more interesting to me than meeting at shared values. I'm not trying to sell you something. If anything, I'm trying to show you where we are. There is nothing to hide.

I think it's easy to make impenetrable music that nobody can get, and you can hide behind that sometimes.

Stats are something which can't define everything. It could be hiding more things than it shows.

I understand that bureaucracy, hierarchy and managing politics is not easy.

I believe the auto business is a highly comprehensive and complicated business. It's not that easy for people simply to enter and ruin the whole thing.

Whatever belonging to the region of thought and feeling is uttered in words, is of necessity uttered imperfectly. For thought and feeling are infinite, and human speech, although far-reaching in scope, and marvelous in delicacy, can embody them after all but approximately and suggestively.

You could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred.

Hitherto, the rights and wrongs had seemed so beautifully simple.