Challenging Topics Quotes

That's just the culture that television breeds. No one wants to be difficult. You want to bring solutions, not problems.

I want stories that tackle things.

Writing a novel about feminism can be a thankless task.

I'm really attracted to authors who take on really tricky material with a very open mind and take a subject matter that you wouldn't think would be a comedy.

The great thing about Showtime is that they really give us leeway and the range to explore the real dark side of stuff.

To me, the only purpose in making films, in my mind, is to talk about something and go to a place that might be difficult but that can make you still think and question.

When you don't talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you. I give them a lot of credit to be able to hang with me this long, because I've gone through a lot of changes, but they've allowed me to grow, and thus we can tackle some serious subjects and try to just be better human beings, all of us.

I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging.

For me, every book is a journey - questioning a really difficult topic that most people don't want to talk about, much less write about. And that's what I need; that works for me as a writer.

Drama asks some uncomfortable questions at times... It goes to pretty dark places.

The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair.

There's a host of difficult issues here, and that's why when you mentioned at the top of the show that the committees were looking at this, that's where I think we should be going.

I've always been interested in exploring difficult subjects for the mainstream.

I think games are a good medium for approaching any subject, particularly difficult ones, because by their very nature, they are abstract, invite interaction and allow us to confront and question things... particularly rules that we may blindly follow.