Quotes About Depth

I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.

I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.

I just love characters that are complex, that you can dig into and keep itching the scratch and never quite be satisfied because they have enough going on with them that it's like a giant puzzle.

People have these ideas about comic books and their adaptations as flashy and sort of surface-y, broad-strokes-type projects, but they're not, really.

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

I cried when I saw how flat Toledo was.

I don't look at fashion shows on the internet because it's too flat.

If there's anything consistent about my work, it's not flat.

Well, I like characters, players with personality, I don't like flat people.

I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I feel-and very often I cannot even do that when the feeling is very deep.

I look for characters that are extremely flawed and the anti-hero.

I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect.

I'm attracted to playing characters that have flaws.

The thing with videogame characters is that they tend to be really undercooked, and people don't take the time to really flesh them out. They don't treat them with the respect that a writer writing characters in any other medium would treat their character.

As a football team, we don't have any backups. We don't consider anybody a backup.

I like things that are funny and have a lot else in them besides that - ideas, for example.

Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.

I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.

The heart of another is a dark forest.

But I found out that bones with flesh are more interesting than bones without.

For me, there is always a certain level of recklessness that, I think, gives you a certain foundation, that makes you more interesting as a person.

I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They're the reason I got into movies.

I like fractured characters with human follies.

I feel like I'm really lucky because I get to sometimes maybe vibrate at a frequency that's a little deeper and darker than people anticipate.