Quotes About Depth

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

I do like that idea that music can work on two levels, and you only pick up on the second one after a few listens.

Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.

If you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well.

What made 'Ice Age' work is that it had its shiny candy coatings, but inside was a soft, creamy center.

The most fun characters to work with are characters that are complicated.

One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings - meanings which may in fact contradict each other.

Not all of our work is dark, but when we are working on a dark project, we really tend to go there.

It's important for me to work with a strong director because I know I can go to some really deep places, I just need direction on how to get there.

Content is the meaningful substance of the work.

I try to take the pain and find a way to use it in my work; I find that it makes the work deeper.

With streaming, everything is focused on singles. That means an artist's depth doesn't have the chance to shine through.

Blues is life, you know? An appreciation for the depth of life and the fact that hard times strengthen you and make you ready - blues, a lot of times, is about the loss of love.

Any strengthening of the squad, in a League and Champions League which demands so much, is a good thing because you need many top quality players.

I'm focused on the work. And now I've done 'Morris' and 'Mr. Robot,' my appetite is whet to go deeper. It's fun, and it's challenging, and it stretches me. I'm not saying I'm done with comedy by any stretch of the imagination. I'm saying, yeah, let's see how deep the rabbit hole goes.

It's really hard to find a love song that is real. That's when you really strike a chord with somebody, when you dig in deep and grab a hold.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

It's wonderful when you can play a character that pulls all sorts of strings inside of you and fills you emotionally.

It's a really cool time for artists who want to strive for a little more depth in what they want to say to come forward. We live in a very fast world right now. We've got all this media and music which is so accessible to us, it's here one minute gone the next.

When I write a book, characters come to life for me somewhere at the back of my head. I strive to make them flesh and blood in an abstract way, in words.

A short story can be really interesting and enriching and powerful, but a novel just contains so much more information and richness and depth. That's what I strive for in my music. I want to create something that's like a longform statement.

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

I always felt something different when I saw Gary Oldman on screen. It just felt like he knew how to reach a deeper level of himself, which is something I keep striving to reach.

TV deals in very broad strokes. Like, 'Oh, that's my dumb friend', or, 'That's my funny friend.' A true best friend, a sidekick, has to be a little deeper then that. You have to feel like there's nothing either character won't do. That someone really, really has their back.