Quotes About Depth

If you manage to joke around and charm people, it means that from inside, you are very serious.

It's one thing to make people laugh, but after a certain point, comedy is almost cheap.

A grownup is a child with layers on.

Romance is quite an overblown word. This idea of chocolates and champagne and that's it. There's more to love than that. Romance is quite a soppy word. Love is much more important.

Looking at 'Batman v Superman' - which I can watch objectively, since I'm in it for all of two seconds - I see different layers. It is not preachy, and represents the gray we live in as human beings.

Everybody can win things with 25 superstars in the squad.

The spirituality of the music is something that I always search for in what I do, because I think that music has to have everything inside: a strong architecture, a support, the emotion.

I am humbled by the encouragement of my supporters and the depth of their faith and confidence in me.

It's very important that all the supporting characters feel like they've existed in the world, that they've had a history, and they'll go on to have a history within the scope of the story rather than just popping up and then disappearing.

I suppose I had these concerns but I really felt that I had to keep my scope very, very concentrated.

I suppose I do have an interest in stories that show complexity.

If you don't have any Coltrane, 'A Love Supreme' will do it for you. It will explain everything. Even if you don't get it, it will still explain everything. That's how deep it is.

Surely there's a deeper pursuit to music than getting bros to pump their fists in the air.

Digital communication is completely different from in-person, face-to-face conversations. One will give you surface insights, and the other really gives you depth.

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

There's a richness that reading gives you, an opportunity to probe more than any other medium I know of. Reading is about not being content with the surface.

Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

My work is not about paint. It's about paint at the service of something else. It is not about gooey, chest-beating, macho '50s abstraction that allows paint to sit up on the surface as subject matter about paint.

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart.

I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.

If we get caught up in a story, it's because we've started to care about the characters, and that can only happen if we've moved beneath the surface.