Rex Stout Quotes

People are too complicated to have simple labels.

No one is any one thing.

Humans are complex, and I think in entertainment in general, it's very easy to put people in boxes.

People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

I don't think any of us like to be reduced to just one label.

There are always people who are desperate to put you in your one camp and never let you leave. The idea that you could be interested in the Yazidi community and also in lipstick blows people's minds. It's a really short-sighted, Stone Age attitude; it's boring, actually.

People aren't grapes - you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals.

Do I think men are complicated? People are complicated! I don't know that there is one particular aspect of men in general that I don't understand - other than why do they have nipples? I thought we decided that men are just big, hairy apes.

I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.

I love how complicated we are. We are complicated because of what we've had and lived.

Labels are limiting, and I don't like them.

Guess what? Human beings are complex.

Good or bad is what we tend to want to affix to people, but we're all complicated.

In life, we are all more than one thing, but for some reason in movies, you're either this or that. It reduces the complexity of a human being in so many ways.

Humans are the most complicated, nuanced things that exist. We can't be reduced to labels or summed up with five traits - even if they are the Big Five.

Individuals are complex and deserve to be recognized as such.

It's impossible to capture every single facet of someone's personality in a film.

I will no longer enter into the all-American skin game that demands you select a box and define yourself by it.

There's more to a person than whether or not they like dogs.

I don't like labels.

I am a woman, and I am Jewish; I'm a film-maker, and I'm a writer, so you cannot just put me in one box.

The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book.

Putting labels on people is so counter-productive. Most of us on some issues could be considered conservative, on other issues could be considered progressive, on other issues might be thought of as being moderate, on other issues might be thought of as being rather forthright.

Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.

There seems to be a lot of name-calling going on, but I want to remind you what our good dad told me one time. Labels are for soup cans.