Quotes About Depth

The heart of the artist is a little bit hollow. The bones of the artist are a little bit hollow. The brain of the artist is a little bit hollow. But this allows them to fly.

I worry that if whatever pops into your head at any instant immediately goes online, you lose the crucial time for your thoughts to simmer and evolve and build up nuance, depth and empathy.

that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.

[E]very time you think the entertainment moguls have hit rock bottom, they reach for the jackhammer and rat-a-tat-tat a little deeper.

A Mozart symphony is very much like a Pixar movie - in the sense that Pixar movies are hugely successful because they operate on several levels at the same time.

The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.

I love the idea that if you build something with enough depth and texture, you can watch it again and again and see new things every time, and that's very important.

My favorite records are not easy - they're not records that reveal everything to you the first time out.

Inside every human being, there is unlimited time and space.

You will, in time, see and show others not just the superficial, but the details, the meanings, and the implications of all that you look at.

What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.

People weep at music all the time, because music gives form to some abstract level of integration.

For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience and thought and feeling that I have.

What I know about love, I can write on the head of a matchstick.

Real relationships are the product of time spent, which is why so many of us have so few of them.

the mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time

I pass on a lot of teen roles that get sent to me because a lot of the time it doesn't feel real. It's sugar-coated. There's no depth to it.

Keep it simple, stupid. Good game design shouldn't keep you looking at the manual but should have enough depth where you feel like you bring something new to the game every time you play.

There are so many romantic comedies made, but very few dramas or love stories. And with a love story, you have to take time to develop three-dimensional characters.

It's very easy for a couple to experience joy together. But when you experience pain together, it can lead to such depth and such union. That is when you fuse.

It sounded very shallow put that way. Did it matter? Sometimes the human spirit needed the shallows. Sunshine danced on the shallows but was absorbed beyond trace by the depths.

You have a disconcerting way of looking at me so directly that I feel as though you could see right through into my soul, Mr. Cunningham, she said. I suppose it is the artist in you.

He sat back on the seat and looked at her averted face. She was a far more complex person than he had ever dreamed. A wounded person. One who for some reason he did not understand had never been whole, and never free.

There was something different about his face. It was not quite smiling, but the disciplined austerity had somehow gone from it. It was as though he had allowed some of himself to come out from that place deep within where he had hidden most of his life.