Quotes About Complexity

Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.

I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

Human darkness fascinates me; I find it intriguing. And there are few female characters who are explored in this light.

If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

For me, it's first about the characters. I look for a character who is intriguing and challenging and different from what I've done before.

I love big, sprawling movies where there are too many characters, and people get introduced halfway through, and you're like, 'Wait, who are these people?'

For me, it's important that as you're introducing yourself, you show different dimensions.

Products can introduce more complexity over time, but as far as launching and introducing a new product into the market, it's a marketing problem. You have to explain everything you do, and people have to understand it, within seconds.

In life, there are really complex, difficult jobs, and some are more complicated and difficult than others. But when you look around at inventions, or records that have been broken, you have to tell yourself that anything is possible.

I had one scene in 'Invisible' with 12 actors delivering dialog at the same time.

I did a game at Atari Research called 'Excalibur' about the Arthurian legends. At the time, it was very, very complicated, very involved and so forth and actually still looks better than some of the modern games in terms of its richness and involvement.

A relationship is just a giant grey thing. Just beautiful and also frustrating. And it involves everything.

There have been so few decent films involving Negroes that right away everybody expects every film to do everything. But when you make a flick, there are maybe two things you're trying to put into that flick. You can put the other things in another time.

For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.

The fact is, I've always felt more British than Irish. Maybe it was the way I was brought up, I don't know, but I have always felt more of a connection with the U.K. than with Ireland.

I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.

I don't feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don't feel either. And, in another way, of course, I'm both.

I'm Irish, I'm from New York, and I definitely have issues.

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.

It's the irrational things that interest me.

Nothing that you make in the world exists in isolation from the social and political and ecological dimensions of it.

What influences our behavior, and what our level of responsibility is, are very complex issues. And anytime we try to make this simplistic, we don't serve people well.

The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.