Hiam Abbass Quotes

People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.

When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.

The closest synonym of happiness is excitement, and you can generate it by doing something that you can't completely comprehend. This understanding makes the process rich and exciting.

Variety is the key to not being bored.

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

You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.

When things are too clear, they are no longer interesting.

Only that mind draws me which I cannot read.

I don't like to get bored and don't like to repeat myself.

My characteristics as a scientist stem from a non-conformist upbringing, a sense of being something of an outsider, and looking for different perceptions in everything from novels, to art to experimental results. I like complexity and am delighted by the unexpected. Ideas interest me.

I'm drawn to roles because they excite me intellectually and emotionally.

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all this duckweed on the surface, you can't tell if the stream is one inch deep or a hundred fathoms.

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

I get bored in Hollywood.

I just don't like boring myself. That's one of the main reasons I did 'Ice Age' - because I'd never done something like this before.

Keep it simple, stupid. Good game design shouldn't keep you looking at the manual but should have enough depth where you feel like you bring something new to the game every time you play.

I definitely like a little bit of darkness, a little edge. I get a little bored when things are maybe too simple or too... expected.

I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.

Only the shallow know themselves.

If you're not challenged, you'll get bored.

Every film has a lot of questions that you don't know the answer to, and you just hope that you figure it out. But I tend to like things that are hard; I don't know why.

I don't take on projects that are a hassle or when someone comes in and says, 'We really need this design,' and I'm like, 'OK, fine, I'll do it.' It really has to be something that I personally feel intrigued and excited about - any product, as long as I'm excited by it. It doesn't have to be a car.

Dynamic change is always my favorite thing. As soon as I feel like I'm doing all of the same stuff over and over again, I'm bored and sad.