Quotes About Depth

In Britain, you know there are people waiting to tear your stuff apart, so it's important for me to know that my music has subtleties and depth to it.

When I walked into the studio, the chorus of 'Nobody Love' was already set. For me, the challenge was to make it have depth.

I think people who are artists, actors, singers, great songwriters, they tend to have a hyper state of emotion where they feel things very, very deeply, probably more deeply than the average person walking down the street where it may affect them, but not to the same extent.

If we are going to achieve something, we are going to need a strong bench.

It is never a problem to have good players on the bench.

When you bring one of your top scorers, your top players off the bench, it really gives your team balance.

If you want to see how good your team is, look at your bench.

I've always been interested in what else is here, what lies beneath.

If you want to reach any kind of poignancy or meaning a lot of times, coming from comedy is the best way to get there.

When I do my best work, the stories tend to be pretty emotionally-charged.

I'm a big believer in big books, and that doesn't necessarily mean long books.

The big difference with Juliette and the others in that film is that she goes beyond acting.

History is so deep, especially black history, so I have a lot to learn.

I don't think of people as out-and-out black or white.

The seas are the heart's blood of the earth.

The action stuff is only good if you get the character stuff in there as well. Sometimes that get lost in amongst all the trying to make stuff blow up.

Blues was made for the recessed.

Read much, but not many books.

I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.

I never know how a novel is going to end, because you don't really know what's going to be at the bottom of a novel until you excavate it.

If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.

Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.

Brilliant documentaries are about so much more than their subject.

I'm very simple. I have to be. I'm not very smart. I start broad, then go deep where I'm interested.