Quotes About Depth

Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to.

I'm not interested in just being the hot girl. I'm really goofy, and I love laughing, and that's such a big part of who I am.

I'm not interested in entertainment.

I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.

I'm not interested in being easy anymore. Readable, yes. Easy, no.

The externals are important but I'm not interested in superficiality.

I'm not interested in a pretty world. It's boring to me. If you're lucky enough to get to play a character for a long time, it's life-changing.

I'm not interested in going and doing a big, action-adventure romp with nothing to say about being a human being.

Scripts that make characters a two-sentence description, I'm not interested in.

I'm not interested in a character's goodness. I'm interested in what makes them human.

It works better if your lead character is complex and interesting and not perfect.

Multifaceted and textured characters are always more intriguing to me. You never really just want to play one note. It becomes a bit monotone and boring.

I don't like to play characters that are one note, and just the attractive girl in the film.

The characters, to me, in 'Homeland' are not one note in any way.

I didn't want Sadness to be just one note.

You have to open the music, so to speak, and see what's behind the notes because the notes are the same whether it is the music of Bach or someone else.

The right notes mean more than 1,000 mph arpeggios.

I want filmmakers to notice me, not just as a glam doll but as a human being with all facets of emotions.

I am fascinated by that notion of people are never as they seem. And that doesn't make them good or bad. It's just we don't ever really show ourselves if we don't have to.

For me, I guess I feel like the notion of 'feel good' entertainment... I'm all for it, but I just think you really, really, really have to earn it. I'm not sure I have a lot of movies in me where I see a world that earns it.

A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.

The short story can't really hold an interesting event. It can't hold a death or a war or a loss of great magnitude the way either a long story or a novel can.

You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences.

Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.