Quotes About Complexity

I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.

And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.

Jazz sometimes can be really complicated and inaccessible to people because they don't know what to start with. You can start with something that you love, but if you start with something that you hate, then it's like, 'You know what, I hate jazz.' It took me a lot of time to catch on to jazz, too.

There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.

Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.

I am all about the complicated ice cream. Ben & Jerry's is my go-to. I like as many things in there as possible.

There's a lot more to us than what you see on 'Jersey Shore.'

The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.

I've been mayor of the city of Jerusalem, which is perhaps, in some ways, more complex and more difficult than a ministerial position.

After 'Jessica Jones' came out, I started hearing firsthand from a lot of women who were so inspired by the character, who felt represented, who felt like watching Jessica on screen helped them in their own lives. Women are devouring content like that because everybody is complicated; not everybody is one thing.

I'm a Jew. I think every Jew is dark in certain ways.

It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.

I am a woman, and I am Jewish; I'm a film-maker, and I'm a writer, so you cannot just put me in one box.

I've played a jock a lot, but pretty nuanced jocks.

I have, in the past, been attracted to really strong and dominant men. But on the other side, I have been attracted to very androgynous men. I don't typically fall for your average jock. I just like people that are a little atypical.

When I joined 'Kumkum,' I was excited because the character had grey shades.

I wouldn't call the Joker exactly easy to write.

You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces refracting the light, shifting into an infinite universe of flowers and rainbows and insects and planets, magical dividing cells, pictures no one else knew ...

Ah women, women, my life's plague and chief delight!

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.

At the end of Trump's term, what I've learned is that I really don't understand America well at all.

Perhaps when you're young you think that something must be profound just because it is difficult and you don't have the self-confidence to say 'this is just nonsense