Quotes About Depth

The characters don't all have to be likable, and they don't all have to be hateable. As long as it's interesting and you connect to them and they resonate with you and you want to find out what happens and it feels authentic, then we have something.

It's just not interesting to play happy people.

I am not a calm, happy person. I am complicated.

A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.

But at heart, I am more than a cinematographer.

To tell you the truth, while I do enjoy the grand-scale elements, it's the personal scenes, the character moments that I really find satisfying. That's where I get to delve into the characters' minds and hearts. That's where they become living, breathing beings to me.

Obviously, I'm attracted to heavier movies.

In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas.

I put heavy emphasis on the characters.

Some movies are entirely too heavy, and some movies have no meat in them.

I think that complicated, nuanced, deep, heavy - that's the place to go. That's what makes a great show. That's what all of us deal with in life.

I felt that writing about peoples' lives was a heck of a responsibility, and I wanted to know them in a deep way.

I guess I'm always drawn to the underbelly of someone, really, as opposed to how heroic they are. I don't judge those sorts of people.

I play characters that allow me to do lot more than just be a glamorous heroine.

In most of my stories, I give a lot of importance to heroines. My heroines are not just glamour dolls.

I always try to look for the hidden face of the character, the hidden face that we all have.

I think it's easy to make impenetrable music that nobody can get, and you can hide behind that sometimes.

Stats are something which can't define everything. It could be hiding more things than it shows.

I've been thinking about it a great deal, and it seems to me that although one sixpence is as good as another sixpence, not twenty lambs would do instead of one sheep whose face you knew. Somehow, when once you've looked into anybody's eyes, right deep down into them, I mean, nobody will do for that one anymore. Nobody, ever so beautiful or so good, will make up for that one going out of sight.

God is Love. Love is the deepest depth, the essence of his nature, at the root of all his being.

One who not merely beholds the outward shows of things, but catches a glimpse of the soul that looks out of them ...

heaven is high and deep, and its lower air is music; in the upper regions the music may pass, who knows, merging unlost, into something endlessly better!

Everything, dreaming and all, has got a soul in it, or else it's worth nothing, and we don't care a bit about it. Some of our thoughts are worth nothing, because they've got no soul in them.

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water — an inch deep and then the mud.