subtle complexity Quotes

I think the best-written films or television series have a measure of the opposite of what they are.

Interesting is when one can produce a picture that is pretty, but with undercurrents. The metaphor that comes to mind is in the poems of Robert Frost.

Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it.

A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.

A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with layers that the author must uncover so carefully to show its beauty.

Simplicity is a delicate imposition.

...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.

Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word.

What I love about our show is that it's so nuanced and feels very real to me. I think how it explores creativity in general is very real.

Bob Glaudini, the writer, he's a wonderfully talented man and all his plays and his screenplays, they all have sense of something bigger, even though you're looking at something very simple.