Human Nuance Quotes

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.

Real life is not like a movie. Even the best movies, the most rich, fleshed-out movies are not as rich and nuanced as detailed as real life or an actual human being.

I've played people that are on the line of evil and good, but that's life. We are always playing with the good and the bad. I see them as people. I don't see them as caricatures. I try to not make them caricatures. Maybe I fail, but I try to see what' behind them. Would I play the hero? A superhero? I don't think so. But, I play good guys. There are some there, but you have to look.

Religion leaves no room for human complexity.

In life, we are all more than one thing, but for some reason in movies, you're either this or that. It reduces the complexity of a human being in so many ways.

People are more than their first impressions. And even if someone seems like a lot, or seems this way or that way, it doesn't mean they're not a three-dimensional person, with a real life.

People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated.

I look at characters to see if they have some contrasts to play with; I think that's always what I'm looking for in characters: ones that have a wide range of expression.

Nobody should be entirely defined by one thing

No human beings are one-dimensional, and if they feel one-dimensional to you, it's because you don't know them.