Best 427 quotes in «complicated quotes» category

I love doing movies, but right now, television is the way Hollywood was in the late '60s and early '70s. The dream era I would have loved to have been part of in Hollywood then is happening right now, but it's happening on television, with these big complicated story arcs and real character-driven shows and sheer ambiguity left and right.

I love to do very long and complicated scenes. I like to have this impression that we are all working together, where you can see all the technicians and everybody is really doing the same thing at the same time. With close-ups, of course you have the crew there, but most of them are just around and it doesn't involve that many people.

I'm a huge fan of basically anything written about complicated, contradictory women. I'm drawn to them really quickly.

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

I'm a serial monogamist. I'm not one of those people that can date loads of people at the same time, it's all too complicated.

I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

I mean, Deadpool has a script, but it's a very complicated process to find the right filmmaker. We'll see.

I'm not that complicated, Haven. The truth is, I've wanted you ever since I met you in that damned wine cellar. Because I got a bigger charge out of that five minutes than I have with any woman before or since.

I'm not drawn to stories that are just sort of fluffy. I'm just not, and I've tried to, and as a kid I was never drawn to them. I always chose complicated.

I'm not that complicated. My complications come out in my songs. All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.

I never feel the need to go out and make some grand statement that I'm dark and twisty and complicated, because I'm not that either. It's just not as simple as ponies and rainbows, though I do love ponies and rainbows.

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

In the world of relationships, possibly the most complicated, uncommon, hard to find, hard to keep and most rewarding has got to be friendship.

In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.

In the Democratic primary in 2008, the Obama team devised a strategy to use the caucuses and a complicated system of awarding delegates in the state primaries to sneak up on Hillary Clinton and establish a lead Obama never surrendered.

I personally make sure that some of my investments are in foreign securities or in international commodity portfolios that are independent of the US dollar. But that's a personal preference. I do not invest in currencies because it's so complicated and so risky. I would not attempt that without excellent professional help.

It can be the best of relationships and the worst of relationships - often at the same time. The bond between a mother and daughter is one of the strongest, but it's also among the most complicated.

I realized I loved you, and I didn't want to be married to somebody I didn't love. I wanted to be married to you. It isn't all that complicated.

I received a phone call from my mother, and it was so complicated and involved, and it reminded me of just how it is in a family, and how it is in Mexico, and gossip, and all this stuff. And I thought, well, why can't a documentary be made about gossip? And in that way, I touch upon these other things - identity, cultural identity, and aesthetics.

Is it really so terrible being around us?" I blushed. "No," I said. "But . . . it's complicated. I've been taught certain things my entire life. Those are hard to shake." "The greatest changes in history have come because people were able to shake off what others told them to do.

I started playing heavy-metal guitar because that's what I liked. And then I got into classical guitar because it was so technically complicated.

I started puberty very late. I was nearly sixteen. And for complicated reasons this late arrival of my puberty caused me to stop playing competitive tennis. But before my puberty problem, I had trouble with my lower back and with my left testicle.

Is that what I wanted? To be in the middle of something complicated and dramatic? To be a cheerleader for someone else’s romance? Or to have a romance of my own?

It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people.

I think the best thing I have is the introvert's ability to listen when you're working on something as complicated as this and you have to really be aware of everyone's specialized skills.

It is easy to be accurate if you have the freedom to be complicated, and it is very easy to be simple if you have the freedom to shade the truth. What's hard is to be simple and very accurate, and that takes work to figure out what are the simple truths that are going to sustain your case.

I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

It is best not to study too much on who gets what they deserve. It can lead to an overly complicated interpretation of God's personal attributes.

It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.

I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.

It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.

It's a complicated story [hoe I got into music ]. I actually wrote a book about it, titled For Sue.

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.

It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.

It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.

It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.

It really is not that complicated, I just don’t understand HOW people don’t grasp the concept of ‘Free Market’, and why left alone, it WORKS!

It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

It's a very complicated landscape and I don't think there's one easy answer about it [Edard Snowden movie].

It's hard to understand how you arrive at a design. It's far too complicated to get any overall picture of.

It's complicated.' 'So's quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.

It's easy to have a complicated idea. It's very hard to have a simple idea.

It's easy to make a pirate copy when you have digital tapes of things. And it was so complicated and complex to go through all the post-production of a movie without ever going digital.