Sorting through what social conventions we ought to adopt for the Internet is a pretty tricky and complicated topic. I think we are just going to live through a lot of these issues until we discover what social norms make sense.
The '30 for 30' strand started life as a series of behind-the-scenes docs for the sports channel ESPN. It has now spawned an equally fascinating series of podcasts. Like the films, these podcasts don't rely on access, the usual currency of sports journalism, and are strangely excited by stories that are complicated and require telling at length.
When it comes to vampires, Daniel Gillies's Elijah is the cream of the crop. Since leaving 'The Vampire Diaries' to headline 'The Originals,' we've seen the brother of Klaus grow from the altruistic, steadfast, suit-wearing stud into a complicated, nuanced lead.
President Obama makes fantastic stump speeches, but putting together an actual agenda is more complicated.
Taxes have been complicated. Every single time I spend a Bitcoin, it's a taxable event. It's like I bought and sold an asset. It counts as an investment, with a short- or long-term capital gain or loss.
I guarantee there's people who watch television who have no idea how complicated it is to make a television show.
I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.
Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved.
I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be.
It's a complicated dynamic sometimes, mothers and daughters. There's this thing of, like, 'This is a model of womanhood for you,' but yet we find so many reasons why we don't want to be like our mother.
Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.
What I find, particularly with young writers and readers, is that they don't want complicated feelings.
