Quotes About Complexity

These new 'hybrid' F1 cars represent an extremely complex project.

There's all kinds of depictions of black men. You have the Denzel Washingtons and the Will Smiths; that's wonderful, but that doesn't represent everyone. There's a Russell Crowe... well, you know, there's a black Russell Crowe.

The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.

It's patently impossible for a Muslim character to represent 'all Muslims.'

Shouldn't you be able to tell your stories from your point of view? We're dealing with that with 'Looking' where some queers are like, 'These guys are so boring! They don't represent me!' But no show can represent everything, so is it OK for us, in 'Looking,' to write about these three men and their world?

It's more important to represent women as complete, whole, complicated humans as opposed to saintly, perfect women. The point isn't that they have to be good people. It's that they have to be people.

The revolution is that we can be anything. We don't have to be one thing or the other. The idea that it is my responsibility to represent only good black people... I mean, what are you talking about? That's not a character - that's a polemic.

The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.

Representation means having characters with layers, showing them as human beings, so we can relate or have mixed emotions for that character.

Now that we've seen broader representation of trans identities, I think it's safer to explore the fault in these trans characters and make them entirely human and three dimensional.

I'm most concerned with committing to characters that contribute to more complex, modern and dynamic Asian-American representation on screen.

I'm not a representative of blackness, and I'm not a healer.

I'm not a representative of Pakistan; I'm just an example that Pakistanis are different from each other. I believe it in my fiction and I believe it personally.

'Scalped' is representative of the kinds of stories I like to read and I like to watch.

The truth, the real history, is way more interesting and representative of what America actually is.

I couldn't put into a capsule one thing that represents me, I don't think.

In many respects, Afghanistan represents a more difficult problem set. It does not have a number of the blessings that Iraq has in terms of the oil, gas, land of two rivers, the human capital that Iraq built up over the years, the muscle memory of a strong government - albeit one that was corrupted over time.

As I've said repeatedly, Republicans are very good at describing things in black and white; Democrats are very good at describing the 11 shades of gray.

Republicans want to be tough and say, 'Illegals, you're gone.' But the answer is a lot more complex than that.

I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.

The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.

This is America; our icons are complicated.

All great characters, great icons, in literature are a bit of a riddle, and that's the reason we go back to them over and over.

I tend to enjoy roles that I very closely identify with: fringe people and complicated characters, who might even be bad guys, or bad characters that have one redeeming quality.