Quotes About Complexity

I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

Good people were also capable of doing very bad things.

There's no good guys and bad guys.

When you have a good movie, it's hard to categorize it. It's everything. It makes you laugh, makes you cry and makes you think.

The bad guys are not typical, they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad.

But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.

The good thing about people really is their iffy-ness and dodginess, isnt it?

I'm attracted to those kinds of roles that could be good or could be bad, and you just don't know.

A good question has many answers.

As he closed the door he said over his shoulder, "Because you're a good lass." A heavy sigh. "And I'm no' a good man.

Just making a good movie is hard to do.

The Internal Revenue code has ballooned to a 5,600-page, 4 million-word complicated mess that is seven times as long as the Bible with none of the good news.

I'm no good at being good.

Limitation is a good discipline because it discourages inappropriate generalization, which distracts attention from the profound, particular complexity that characterizes anything at all.

The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons.

I think that I prefer to shoot characters even if they are not good people. I don't think that cinema is a place where you can do sentences like in a court.

I'm many things: I'm a convicted rapist, I'm a hell-raiser, I'm a father, a loving father. I'm a semi-good husband...I'm pretty much a tyrant-titan.

London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay.

It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy.

That's sort of what I like about this character is that he's not the good guy, he's not truly the bad guy.

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.

My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate."

The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment.

In my writing I hope to have a balance between the good and bad, the hard and soft.