Quotes About Complexity

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

Eggplants are finicky, complicated, and often misunderstood. If you know how to treat one well, then it shows that you have know-how and dedication.

I think I'm a director that is very easily misunderstood.

I don't believe in bad and good, I believe we are all a mix of both.

We like to categorize things into showy things and deep things, you know, and things that are high music - important music - and shallow music. And I think that's dangerous, because there's often a mix of both.

I'm not good with words, and I get mixed up.

I think marriage is beautiful, but I have mixed feelings about it.

I'm a mixture of untidy and anal.

What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.

I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.

I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse. The art world is filled with vibrancy.

Making a record with 'Depeche Mode' is not a simple process. It's quite complicated and long. We have the luxury of time. I'm not sure that's such a good thing when you're being creative.

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

I'm not good at the modern world.

I get called lots of things - a biochemist, a molecular biologist, a chemical engineer - and I guess I am all of those. I identify most as human!

The more we understand what happens in living cells, the more incredibly powerful you realize things can be when they work from the bottom up, by interaction of one molecule and another.

My thing is, I like playing guys who have a really interesting internal monologue.

The ego is a fascinating monster.

Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster.

All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.

The truth is complicated, and few people are actually monsters.

I'm not a person you can figure out in one month. And you can't listen to one song and say, 'That's who he is.'

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

'Moonlight' isn't an issue film. It's not about addiction, it's not about sexuality, it's not about identity. It's about all these different layers, because they are all a part of the character.