Quotes About Depth

The Sound of Building Coffins is a soulful work from a writer of the weird. Maistros does more than make you feel for his characters and their twisted, damaged lives; he makes you *want* to feel.

In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline. Dionysian; Apollonian. Passion;reason.

I'm excited to work on something where I have a bit more time with it, to explore one personality. That's definitely exciting to me.

I work best when a little scared, when there's so much more than the lines to think about.

I truly think any preparation you do only helps and adds dimension and complexity to the work [as an actor].

It's only those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work

Outward beauty is the frame for the masterpiece of your soul.

I always tell my students to complicate your characters: never make it easy for the reader. Nobody is ever one thing. That's what makes characters compelling.

I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.

During the inception of 'Zindagi Gulzar Hai,' we studied the characters and the script in depth so that we could imbibe the essence of it in our performance.

What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray.

My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times - is different from my favourite author, who is Iris Murdoch. I find her books exciting and unputdownable. Her characters are so carefully studied and in-depth; I love that.

I like to study a lot of math, physics, and the Bible, too. For me, they all show that there's a lot more to things than we see.

I don't think the process was successful and should be inspected closer. I am not afraid to say I am not familiar with the entire process, so before commenting further I would have to study the process more in depth.

My experience and growth in the film music world and the time I've spent studying legendary film composers have given me depth of insight into how music can inspire a range of emotions.

It's not stupid TV, it's not a reality program. It actually is complex. There's many layers to 'Heroes.'

I'm very much known as being the smiley girl, and unfortunately, lightness can be mistaken for stupidity or someone with no depth.

The Beatles are here, and if you could see me my hand is on the ceiling. Styx is here, and my hand is in the basement.

I think art, at its best, happens on a conscious and a subconscious level.

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.

Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!

I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!

The heavy subject matter is the most fun stuff to work with. It's the meaty things, it's the things that you get to get stuck in.

To nurture the sort of relationships that will truly help propel you towards accomplishing great things, you need to forget transactional networking and focus on having in-depth conversations with fewer people about subjects you really care about.