Quotes About Depth

Anyone who is drawn in broad strokes either negatively or positively is generally not very interesting to play.

You can create something strong in art with a few notes. It is like how Aboriginal drawings have a simplicity that is incredibly rich.

I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated.

I went looking for some preliminary information, and very quickly was struck by the sort of way the surface-level knowledge about Zelda doesn't begin to describe the person that she really is. You know, I had come to the project with the idea that she was, you know, just F. Scott Fitzgerald's crazy, disruptive wife.

What I wanted to create with 'The Luminaries' is a book that had structural patterns built in that didn't matter, but if you cared about them, you could look into the book and see them.

You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.

When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy.

Henry Kissinger once told me he was very concerned about the Internet's impact on people's ability to absorb information in a concentrated way, because we've become accustomed to looking up something, getting a snippet and being satisfied with that - as opposed to reading through and considering a weighty tome that goes into great depth.

Because I come from that old-school optics environment, I know stuff about depth of field and camera movement and things that are not necessarily a part of the curriculum for people who started on a box and have never done anything that wasn't on a box.

I think it's important for anyone who takes cinema seriously not to limit yourself to just optimistic or happy movies. I think that's a problem. You've got to be willing to let the art of cinema take you into some darker places if you're going to make full use of it.

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

My character should not be ordinary, cliched, and if I feel that it's difficult to do this character, I take up that challenge to get into his character.

When I'm working on historical books, I'm much more organized. I usually read about 100 books to get the depth of knowledge I need.

'Finding Nemo' was originally shot in 3D.

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.

I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

It's how you look at beauty. Is it only an outward appearance with hair and makeup and a hot body, or is it something deeper than that?

There is always going to be depth and layers to people and that's what interests me in a character: when there is some problem to overcome, when there is a complication to understand in a person.

Bench scoring overall I think is overrated. The question is, do you have enough scoring?

Ham had a way of encouraging intimacy, of making you feel you'd known him for years, and only when you had known him for years, like Ingersoll, did you realize you hardly knew him at all.

The fish fanciers, sitting by their ponds and gazing into their depths, were tracing shadows darker than they understood.

Man is not what he thinks he is; he is what he hides. —André Malraux