Quotes About Complexity

Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.

It's not stupid TV, it's not a reality program. It actually is complex. There's many layers to 'Heroes.'

It's stupid to have a simple-minded view.

Most of the real bad guys in the world are people like you and me; they're not stupid, and you can't smell their horns.

In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.

What Democrats call 'nuanced', most people refer to as 'stupidity.'

When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring.

Supplying food to sub-Saharan African countries is made very complex because of a lack of infrastructure.

To be an actor is to be ambiguous in every form, which is a very hard way to live. You represent desire: the desire of the director and the desire of the audience, even if it's a subconscious desire. If a director is to work with you for two months, he must be in love with you in some way or another.

Whatever we take from a film - personal, public, private, subconscious - a list can only contain moments that are often a key to the recognition of something more complex.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

Basic Economics 101. It's the most complicated simple subject there is.

My own perception of Malcolm was one of something that bordered on fascination because I was looking at him and reacting to him as a subject.

It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.

Tort reform is a complicated subject and not a panacea.

Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.

As you get larger, it is harder to have focused discussions. Because one of the things I've learned about Congress over the past four years that I've been in is there's no shortage of opinions about how things should be done on any particular subject.

This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely subject to its demands.

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling.

I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!

There's a lot of new subject matter to learn. You start slowly peeling the onion and start figuring out how the policy and the politics intersect.

The heavy subject matter is the most fun stuff to work with. It's the meaty things, it's the things that you get to get stuck in.

I'm attracted to challenging subject matter.

It's very hard to deal with true subject matter, especially when you're writing about such weighty issues.