Amy Landecker Quotes

I understand and I don't understand human beings.

I trust people to be human. Sometimes you do things that make amazing amounts of sense; sometimes you do things that don't make any sense whatsoever.

Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen.

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things.

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.

I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.

Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.

For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.

We are, all of us, incoherent text, and just knowing that - knowing that no matter how much you say, 'I am this' and part of you is not that - means that you can say it.

Guess what? Human beings are complex.

It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow, that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.

Humans are capable of so much creativity and goodness and at the same time they are destructive and cruel. (Leta)

Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous.

Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.

The first thing you should know about people is that you don’t know the first thing about them.