Quotes About Complexity

I don't set out to write female lead shows, necessarily. I like deeply flawed characters. When they come to me, or when I'm introduced to them, I follow the stories and the people, rather than setting out to do a female lead thing.

I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.

I started writing because I saw such a huge lack of complex stories about the inner city.

The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.

Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the next storm will arise.

Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don't be ashamed because you're human: be proud! Inside you, vaults behind vaults open endlessly. You will never be finished, and that's as it should be.

When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.

Is it sad that Storm Corrosion needs to be explained to people before they can accept it? I don't think it's sad; I think it's inevitable. I think it's just human nature.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

You can get people to follow very intricate pathways of musical information, but it feels like a nursery rhyme or a children's story.

I like to say, 'You get as much story as you can take.' But you have to effectively render it.

The great thing about Pete and Peggy's storyline is that you barely have to do anything. There's so much there, so much history, that you can have them exchange a look and it's so loaded. So you honestly don't have to do anything.

The idea of having different characters is really just to get the storyline across, you know? Coming from one particular character makes, to me, the story boring. I get that mainly from novels and that style of writing or movies where there's multiple characters who carry the storyline.

I'm not representing anyone - not Israelis, not Palestinians - I'm just a storyteller trying to raise more questions than give answers.

As a storyteller, I realize that because of the inherent abstraction in rhythm, the possible interpretations are plenty. But that only makes the work more challenging.

Storytelling isn't an Escher staircase.

The hours I spent attempting to decipher some of Dunnett's more oblique passages opened me to the possibilities of romantic storytelling.

I think readers either love or hate nonlinear storytelling, and it's true that it can be more difficult, both to write and to read.

Broadchurch' was all about shades of grey, both in characters and storytelling, and I wanted to see that through to the end.

There's no harmony in most people in a way, and I'm attracted to it, and I think it makes for good storytelling.

I never like to do storytelling where everything is just copacetic right after that episode.

Joe and I have always been drawn to ensemble storytelling. We like the idea of telling stories from multiple characters' points of view and thinking about the story from multiple characters' points of view.

I purposely adopted a style in my storytelling wherein I don't have to explain everything or why the story is moving in a particular way.

Black is confusing. Where does the line start and stop with what is black and what isn't black? People that are mixed-race, or, imagine being from Sri Lanka or Bangladesh, people might say you're black but your features are so non-black, like you've got straight hair, you've got like a sharper nose, or such.