Quotes About Depth

I don't play just villains. I like to have parts that are not simply villains.

I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.

Besides Spiderman and Batman, 'The Flash' has, hands down, the best villains. You could do a TV show about The Rogues, and there's enough depth and interest and oddly honor amongst those characters that I think people will watch that show.

I don't like villains who are just villains. People who are just there to be bad - ugh - so annoying.

Look, I don't think villains are interesting when you can't tell where they're coming from.

I always felt like Azula and Long Feng were much more interesting villains and three-dimensional characters than Ozai, who was just sort of a big jerk. Like a really big jerk, but not very complex or human.

I don't think the Barbara Vines are mysteries in any sense. The Barbara Vine is much more slowly paced. It is a much more in-depth, searching sort of book; it doesn't necessarily have a murder in it.

I would absolutely love to do something with Viola Davis or Meryl Streep. I just think both of those women fall so deep into their characters that you are no longer looking at the actresses, you are looking at the characters they embraced.

My one criticism of Vertigo Crime to date is that it's been a boys' club, reveling in violence that, while entertainingly lurid, lacks depth. Of course, the comics world is deliberately double-dimensional - and shouldn't apologize for being so.

I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human.

I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.

The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!

If you are visible in the whole film, but there is no depth in your role, then the role is not significant.

Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence?

The price of loving so deeply is feeling so deeply—but it's also a gift, the gift of being alive.

The eminent Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung said this: "People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

I have a feeling that there's a lot of buried love between John and Margo because I know this: love can often look like so many things that don't seem like love.

was more to a guy than a handsome face, a chiseled body and a big penis. Having a great sense of humor and the ability to carry on a meaningful conversation definitely counted for a lot.

What is it about sadness that can be so fulfilling?

Could love have only one side to it and still be love?

Was a sadness so profound that the mind sought escape into fantasy?

What does not engage our feelings does not long engage our thoughts either.

My greatest fear had always been: The more you get to know me, the less there is to know.

Why is it, Mr. Poe, that I would sooner spend an hour with you in the"—again she laughed—"in the gloomiest contemplations than spend another minute speaking of dresses and baubles and the things that make most people happy?