Quotes About Complexity

I like real problems, the human condition - twisted, darker stuff.

There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.

I think I have a pattern of nice and lovely and then dark and twisted.

Most novelists write about twisted lives.

As a writer, you rely on whatever makes you up as a person, whether those things are twisted and nasty or otherwise.

The more secrets and twists in a character, the better.

I do know how life can go one way or another and that it's not all just black and white, and there are many different situations and twists and turns in life.

Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I want twists and turns that surprise me, characters that have a difficult time and that I don't know if they're going to live or die.

Twitch has been very hard for me. It makes me feel so stupid. I don't understand it at all... It's very complicated.

I've been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It's a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

'What is Twitter?' has always been a tough question to answer.

There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors.

Everybody has their good days and their bad days, there's always two sides to a story.

I'm a Gemini. Know what that means? There are two very different sides to me.

I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.

There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment, and the moment you get into particular cases, there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It's a mess.

I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue.

When two people are together, they are not two but six: what each one is, what each one thinks he or she is, and what each one thinks the other is. And what is true for people is also true for countries and organisations.

I think that can happen, that two people can love each other and not be able to get on at all.

That's what I do and I enjoy even the hateful moments of a relationship where two people or four people come together to make a bigger mess than originally intended.

'Animal Kingdom' was an amalgam of two people that I had met-slash-known, not particularly well. They were both very, very scary people for very different reasons.

Just like we don't live in a two-dimensional world, we don't live two-dimensional lives.

You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.

I didn't like characters that were one- or two-dimensional. I liked a guy to have a lot of different levels to him and layers, and I think I pretty well succeeded with Thanos.