I read the script and decide if a particular character looks fun to play. I look for complexity and a sense of humor. Those are crucial, real things to life.
For me, a $20 wine that drinks like a $40 wine in terms of complexity and interest is a value, while a $5 wine that is not very good is not a value at all in my opinion.
As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for good. Especially in this ever-more complex and difficult world.
In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous.
A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.
I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.
I had this inferiority complex as a child, as I was not good at speaking. I was also not good in studies or sports and would often flunk in four-five subjects.
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
'The Wine of Summer' is a beautiful film about love lost and found, and the complexities of life while discovering who you are. It was filmed primarily in and around Barcelona, and the imagery is breathtaking.
I love complex characters - strong females who are vulnerable but have a life and soul. That's what I'm drawn to and what I enjoy most.
An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various and complex circumstances of our life.
Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
People say 'The Wire's bleak, y'know, but I see it as a love letter to Baltimore, and it's one written in a very strange and complex way.
We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.
There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.
People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem.
I have been really lucky in my career, with the diversity of it. I get to play really complex people.
Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.
I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.
Most of my books have been about the complex ways an individual depends on community.
