The truth is out there, but it’s often discomfiting and nuanced and hard to find, and not nearly as satisfying as believing whatever you want and mocking those who don’t.
That's what attracts me to the kind of characters I try and write - that they're not cut and dried.
America is a huge country, of course. It's complicated. There's good, and there's not so good, and that's the same wherever you live.
I am not one to seek simple causes.
People are three-dimensional. They're not good or bad. They're not righteous or unrighteous. They are a million different things.
I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.
I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
We all have different sides; nobody is just one thing.
I like characters that are complex. I don't like people who are simple to play and are either black or white.
'Complicated' is good, in my opinion.
I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white.
As far as Lauryn Canny's performance as 'Darlin', it was just so incredibly nuanced and raw and and she's such a hypnotizing person to watch on screen.
I'm interested in characters that are complex people.
I'm very complex and complicated. I like a lot, a lot.
The way I work, things are very nuanced; not everything is explained.
I always tell my students to complicate your characters: never make it easy for the reader. Nobody is ever one thing. That's what makes characters compelling.
The beauty of Sudhir's protagonists is that they are not shown as black and white. There are various layers to the characters.
I'm not a one-dimensional character.
My understanding of environmentalism, of the things that radicalize people, of the ethics and effectiveness of different kinds of social protest have definitely become more nuanced and more informed, but they aren't much clearer.
'Emma' is my favorite Jane Austen novel - one of my favorite novels period; a novel about intelligence outsmarting itself, about a complicated, nuanced, irresistible heroine who does everything wrong.
I like complicated characters.
I didn't like characters that were one- or two-dimensional. I liked a guy to have a lot of different levels to him and layers, and I think I pretty well succeeded with Thanos.
You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.
I am not interested in one-sided characters.
Nobody ever said I'm a simple personality.
