Quotes About Complexity

I think it's always been sort of difficult for people of color to celebrate the Fourth of July and really understand what that means.

We've never been squeaky-clean from the jump. We've never been Disney or Sesame Street, you know.

Everyone likes fantasy to get away from everyday life, but I think 'Game of Thrones' is not like fairies and unicorns. It's very relatable to everyday life. It's not too fantastic - just a little bit.

When we have gay characters on TV, they're just, kind of, gay for the sake of being gay. That's their personality. That's their whole backstory, that's their future story, that's their present story - it's just gay. Nobody's just gay.

I think we so often equate leadership with being experts - the leader is supposed to come in and fix things. But in this interconnected world we live in now, it's almost impossible for just one person to do that.

Women look at the full measure of the man, not just one comment.

I grew up in society when lots of things were hidden, and they were not hidden just one way, but it was very complicated.

We're not whole people if we're just one emotion. On any given day, you can be happy, sad, angry, and so on... As you mature, you just learn to deal with each one of those emotions.

One thing that people outside Chicago need to understand is that the city is not just one thing. It is one city, but it is huge and sprawling. And historically, it has been one of America's most segregated cities.

Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything.

A woman is not just one thing.

You don't have to be just one thing. I think that applies to women in front of and behind the camera.

The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.

A good impression is sort of a juxtaposition of disparate elements.

Kansas City, well, part of the town's pretty cool, and part of the town is not. But it's gonna be that way no matter where you go.

Black people are not a monolith. Black people have different thoughts. And sometimes people just need to hear the harsh truth - even myself. But you can't manufacture a hard truth and place it on somebody. When Kanye says slavery was a choice, that's not a harsh truth.

I was keen to stage 'Faust,' although I find Goethe's 'Faust' indigestible.

I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.

I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.

King Crimson is never easy; it's challenging. That's why I like it.

My mother is not a naturally happy person and is very complex. She won't allow any of us to touch her. Not even my father hugs her. And, as a family, we never kiss each other. Yet we do have a close relationship.

Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not.

I really look up to writers who are able to write compressed, single-scene stories, where everything happens in a kitchen. But I just can't think that way. For me it would be impossible to write a story where I didn't know what someone's parents did and what their grandparents did and who they used to date.

Sometimes you have to make decisions without knowing all that you would like to know That's part of the job.