Quotes About Complexity

Some things were beyond understanding.

grown-ups always say that things are complicated.

They were inlove, but they hadn't been lovers; they were friends and yet also strangers for so many years

You know...it's a hard age. Kids are in that stage where they're beginning to understand the world of adults, without having the maturity of adults to deal with everything going on around them.

My story can't be summed up in two or three sentences; it can't be packaged into something neat and simple that people would immediately understand.

Miles: Well, things are kind of complicated right now. When you're a grown-up, you'll understand. Jonah: I don't want to be a grown-up. Miles: Why not? Jonah: Because grown-ups always say that things are complicated.

How do you explain something that you can't even understand yourself?

How can you explain something that you cant even understand yourself

It was any combination of a thousand things, she told herself, but it wasn't love. And

I think the parts that I played sort of broke the mould in terms of - you know, I played grey characters, the bad girl with a good heart, there was a good reason for her to be bad.

Often, if I read a story and I'm moved, I have an understanding for a character and I don't really know why.

It's called 'Night Moves,' and it's my favorite 'Doc Ford' of all times. It's way too complicated, but it worked.

Food is ever-changing and ever moving forward and getting more and more complex.

Some filmmakers are great at making complex things and films with a lot of moving parts, and I'm just not that way.

It's not easy putting on a festival, there's a lot of moving parts.

If I don't get enough attention, I want more attention. If I have too much attention, I want it to stop. It is not always easy to understand myself.

It's easy to throw mud at coaches because we don't see - nor often understand - everything they do.

I thought 'Mud' would be such an easy film for people to understand.

There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.

Everyone on the planet has a dark and a light. That's a multi-dimensional character.

I think people are intelligent, empathetic, multi-dimensional.

People are multi-dimensional and crave a multi-sensory experience.

For me, in any story that I take, the antagonist is more interesting and multi-dimensional.

'Divergent' is a story about people who don't fit into a category - that is a big part of the message - but it's also about conformity and forcing people into these simple archetypes. At the end of the day, humans don't exist like that. We're multifaceted.