Quotes About Depth

If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like people I know and it doesn't just become a bag of tricks.

Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.

A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.

I never in a million bazillion trillion years imagined that my life would have this many layers of love and richness.

I've got passion, and for people who don't, I make them see how trite their lives are.

I can't bear a trite lyric: sometimes this can be overlooked, but rarely.

For me, what is important is to bring the inner life of these characters - their strengths, contradictions, anguish and triumph - alive.

If you're doing creative work, that work should never feel trivial - even if what you're doing is for hire or lightly intended. Even the mundane doesn't have to be trivial.

Many a trivial novel has been written about an important subject, and many a profound one about nothing in particular.

With any project I work on - not just 'True Detective' - I don't feel the need just to play a strong woman. I don't want the audience to say, 'Oh, she was so strong.' I want to play characters that are flawed and interesting.

I believe that the truest parts of people can be buried, and for many different reasons.

If you love someone truly, just look into her eyes. You will find your soul in her.

It's not as if Trump is addicted to the best-researched, most in-depth, meticulously sourced material in the world. If he were, we'd all be better off, right?

Trump has words, but there's not really any depth there.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.

A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.

A good content always allows me to reach the depth of the characters, and thus, the performance looks more relatable and truthful.

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

At the deepest level people are madder than they want to believe. You will find that they fear being eaten, and are alarmed by their desire to devour others.

Everyone just wants to feel good, and I don't think that all music is designed to make you feel good.

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

If the woman in my life, the one that I felt I loved enough to want to marry, loved my children, I'd know then that her love for me was deeper than I could hope for.

For me, something dangerous would be playing thebabe in a huge studio film. That would be terrifying because I'dstink... I want to explore human beings on as deep a level as I can.