Quotes About Depth

It's cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side.

The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.

I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white.

There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.

What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part - it's character. I like to find characters.

Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.

I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.

For every book that I write... I develop a history for each person and make sure they are well rounded and flawed. You have to know everything about them from their shoe size, to where they went to school, to what their first pet was, to what they like to eat, to what they want out of life.

When I look at a character, I never look at the size of the role. I always look at the whole person, no matter how much they're featured in the movie.

I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth.

I think to get first in your division you've got to have a lot of depth, a lot of character, a lot of skill, a lot of competitiveness.

Beauty is only skin deep.

A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin.

Music has a way of getting under your skin.

We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin.

Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books.

I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.

There is soul music, soul food, and soul love.

Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed.

The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.

Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.

I love people who are complicated, and I love playing people who are complicated.