Quotes About Complexity

For me, Conte was a manager very difficult to work with. His philosophy, his way of dealing with things is very complicated. There were a few games... Sometimes we just don't understand. You're playing very well, then you get substituted. I do not understand.

Historians will tell you that they deal with fact and empirical evidence. But that doesn't really help me understand a person.

If we look too closely at many historical figures, we won't like what we see.

I would like people to get a differentiated historical view of Germany.

Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.

Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.

For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.

It seems the brighter you are, the deeper the hole you get into.

What I learned from my go-round with 'In the Heights' is that it's tough to make a movie. In Hollywood, even the people in charge have people in charge.

At school, I was never given a sense that poetry was something flowery or light. It's a complex and controlled way of using language. Rhythms and the music of it are very important. But the difficulty is that poetry makes some kind of claim of honesty.

You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.

As an actor, it's very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.

A lot of cases, what makes you an interesting and complex person makes you a really horrible person to be with romantically.

Divorce is horrible. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. I don't think it's anything that's ever completely resolved.

I've found you don't have to make anything up. Reality is so complex and fascinating and horrible and beautiful.

In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.

A camel is a horse designed by committee.

My mom worked as a housekeeper, and I saw her relationship with her employers - how on the one hand she spent more time with these women than with a lot of her friends, and how in certain ways they were friends. But then they weren't.

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

There is no manual on how to run a global city like London. But I'm hugely proud of what we've been able to achieve in just the first year.

There's no map to human behaviour.

I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.