Quotes About Complexity

Suddenly the confusing image he had sought so desperately came back unbidden; Brianna's face, with its broad, clean bones, blue eyes set slantwise about a long, straight nose. But Brianna's face grown older, weathered to bronze, rough-cut and toughened by masculinity and experience, blue eyes gone black with a murderous rage. Jamie Fraser

Do you think that the size of the book is justified by the complexity of the story? Grey asked, leaning forward to light a charoot from the candle on the sideboard. It must after all be a great expense to the publisher, as well as requiring a substantial effort from the reader, a book of that length?

If ever you find yourself in the midst of paradox

It's not easy for a film to tell a story of the experiences of an entire society. However, from an individual's perspective, it is possible to tell one aspect of an entire society's story.

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

When you keep un-bundling various aspects of a social problem, you can arrive at a very basic, common space.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

I think I attract love triangles!

L.A. to me is not really an attractive place.

People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.

I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.

The fact is that no foreign-policy doctrine is perfect.

There's more to a person than whether or not they like dogs.

It's very hard to get inside Donald Trump's brain, and I don't want to try.

You love 'Dragon Ball Z' for what it is, but when you really start to look at it, you're like, 'What the hell am I watching?' sometimes.

I'm drawn to the not-so-perfect character.

I don't know why I'm drawn to anti-heroes, but I certainly am.

I'm drawn to dark characters, and to things that are really weighty.

That's what attracts me to the kind of characters I try and write - that they're not cut and dried.

Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where you're both championing a character and you're revolted by them.

Sometimes I feel like my normal approach to roles has been, 'I want to be more complex, dynamic.'

Every family is dysfunctional.

Each individual human being has a lot of stuff that nobody knows about. Nobody knows what anybody else is going through at any point in their lives.

Economics is counterintuitive. It just is.