Ben Goldacre Quotes

What I really don't like is oversimplification.

I am not one to seek simple causes.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.

There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

I am oblique; I think that has to do with my own nature. I like trying to do things which work on many levels, because I think it is terribly important to give an audience a lot of things they might not get as well as those they will, so that finally the film does take on a texture and is not just simplistic communication.

Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people.

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.

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

… steer clear of bogus simplicity

People often only see one side to someone's personality, but there are levels.

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 don't like to just be simple. Even though some of my stuff can seem simple at times, I like to write in a way that, when you listen to it over and over again, you hear something new, and it requires you to think.

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

Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.

In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath. Nature is anything but simple.

Things are always more complicated than most people believe.

...God knows you can have complication and difficulty without any compensating depth or seriousness

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.

What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.

Anything that's worth anything is complicated.

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