Quotes About Depth

In fifth grade, we did 10 minutes on slavery and 40 minutes on Abraham Lincoln, and in 10th grade you might do 10 minutes on the civil rights era and 40 minutes on Martin Luther King, and that's it.

So much of grandeur and richness in songs unnerve me.

I try to begin with a strong grasp of my characters. Even if it's schematic, I need it clear in my head who these people are.

Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.

We live in a gray world, and I want to tell gray stories.

To ground a character in reality, you have to use shades of gray.

I realized all the writing I love lives in the gray area.

I knew that there was a great deal of depth and life that was sitting just beyond my mother's gaze.

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

The Greeks said the artist doesn't actually have to travel and look around. You stay where God has put you, and you dig as deep as you can. This is what I've done.

There are a lot of grey areas in my personality. We all have them.

I like to show the grey area in all my characters.

Characters, like people, don't need to be right - only understood and, perhaps, accepted. We are all grey, lighter and darker, depending on our state of security.

I get the feeling that audiences have become mature and they understand that not every character is in black or white. There can be grey shades to it.

I want to play a character with grey shades.

When grey character gets entertaining, the job is done.

I like grey, not black and white. Even the bad creatures, you want to give them a moment where you empathise with them. You realise that what they do isn't so evil.

I don't know why my leading men have grey shades. Maybe I am trying to explore that side of me through them.

I have no complaints from my characters, be it in 'Commando' or 'Gangs of Wasseypur' everyone on those films was grey.

I don't exactly relate to grey characters.

I love down-and-dirty and grit. But I do think that my favorite dramas are ones that are dark comedies because I think that the only way the audience and the actor can really go as dark and deep as you may want to go is if there's some levity added to it.

The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.