Bill Dedman Quotes

'Complicated' is good, in my opinion.

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

It's always interesting exploring something that has dimensions and layers to it.

He's a layered person, so you have to tackle all the aspects of Tupac individually.

I am not interested in one-sided characters.

I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

I'm not interested in being easy anymore. Readable, yes. Easy, no.

I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

Positive characterizations are complex characterizations. That's all we need to know. They shouldn't be saccharine. They shouldn't feel like medicine.

The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.

Nobody ever said I'm a simple personality.

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

History is complex.

I'm not a person you can figure out in one month. And you can't listen to one song and say, 'That's who he is.'

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.

I'd rather not ever make anything overly simple just because I'm scared people won't get it.

There are a lot of layers to me.

I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.

Education is one of the subjects which most essentially require to be considered by various minds, and from a variety of points of view. For, of all many-sided subjects, it is the one which has the greatest number of sides.

And then, 'Why is a raven like a writing desk?' Those things just became so important to the character. You realize that the more you read it, if I read the book again today, I'd find 100 other things that I missed last time. It's a constantly changing book.

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.

What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual.

Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.