Lennie James Quotes

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in and not just casually observe.

I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you.

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

I thought he was an interesting central figure, central character, one who is definitely not your typical central character figure in a film, who's easy to like. He's not easy to like. It forces you to involve yourself with what's going on.

I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place.

'True Blood' is one of those shows that is so deep and good that you can't have it on in the background. It's one of those shows that you have to dedicate time to.

I don't particularly want to go to a film to make me think, though I want it to be about something.

If it's simple simple, it's boring. We try for the idea that is so simple that it will make you think and rethink.

The best thing you can do to an audience is to make them work.

'Candida' was difficult: stimulating but very wordy.

Invite the reader to participate by deciphering. Chaos can attract and engage.

When anything is easy, it becomes very monotonous for me. But, if I can find something that is really going to take all of my body and all of my mind to really even come close to pulling off, that sounds like fun.

Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty.

Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.

A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest.

It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple

The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.

One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.

There was no press involvement, there was no pressure. Life was very pure and it became more complicated.

If I'm passionate about something, I'll do everything I can to be a part of it.

The more you put into it, the more you and the audience will get out of it.

If you have an active mind, it always helps. You know, people who don't do crosswords, their minds fall asleep. That's why I do them-my mind is always working. One day my brain is going to explode through the top of my head.

We are in a maze which we built, and then we fell into, now can't get out. To make the game into something real, something more than merely an intellectual exercise, we elected to lose our exceptional faculties, to reduce us an entire level. This unfortunately, includes a loss of memory.

The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to the average primate, who instead invents emotional games (soap opera and grand opera dramatics).