Quotes About Complexity

For, no matter how often or how well a person is described, a verbal description can never convey an accurate picture of the lineaments, and the pigment, and the aura that make up the whole personality of a human being.

There are no simple answers in life. There is a good and bad in everyone and everything. No decision is made without consequence. No road is taken that doesn't lead to another. What's important is that those roads always be kept open, for there's no telling what wonder they might lead to.

'Ida' doesn't set out to explain history. That's not what it's about. The story is focused on very concrete and complex characters who are full of humanity with all its paradoxes. They're not pawns used to illustrate some version of history or an ideology.

I've always thought of L.A. as the modern version of 'The Garden of Earthly Delights.'

There are 100,000 versions of Jeff Goldblum.

For people like me, who have got their flags and wars mixed up, I think it should be pointed out that there may have been only one War of 1812, but there are four distinct versions of it - the American, the British, the Canadian, and the Native American.

It's OK to just have one version of yourself. It's OK to have multiple versions of yourself too, but you don't have to.

'The A-Team' compared to making 'Narc' was a breeze. There's a whole other skill set and whole other kind of bone structure that goes into making a movie like 'Narc' versus 'The A-Team.'

I like to stay away from writing about good versus evil. I think the world is more complicated.

Mike and I are always drawn to the idea that there is light and dark inside every being, rather than the old two-dimensional trope of good versus evil.

We think of stories a lot of the time as being horizontal texts, beginning to end. But I love the idea of having little vertical spikes in the story, too.

If you read the whole Vertigo 'Animal Man' series of 89 issues or whatever, each writer has a completely different take on his origin. If you try to put them all together, they contradict one another. I had to pick and choose to make up a new origin that makes sense to new readers.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.

I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.

I analyse in my own way, in very simple, no-jargon language. If somebody is talking in very complicated way, I never like that.

The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.

It's a very confusing era that we're in.

It's very true that you can be both selfless and selfish at the same time. What we tend towards, particularly in filmmaking, is this binary sort of, 'This is a good guy, this is a bad guy.' And I quite like the fact that life is a bit more complex than that.

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.

Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.