Quotes About Depth

I like to play non-cardboard characters. I try and bring out the many complex layers in the personality of the characters I play.

To any relationship, there's a lot of layers.

The more layers a story has, the better it is for the audience.

The story of 'Punyakoti' is real-intense. It has a lot of layers and is not as simple as the stuff I wrote when I was an amateur.

Everybody has layers.

What is the point of doing a long length character if that does not make sense or create an impact on story?

Well, there are different levels of love.

I find something funny when it lives on many levels - a level of self-deprecation, of knowledge and heightened reality.

A lot of the music that I really love, and a lot of my favourite music and a lot of my favourite things and a lot of my favourite people, these can be experienced on many levels.

I think an actor without life experiences is empty.

In my mind, I don't necessarily associate a summer show with lightness.

When you begin a play, you're going to have to spend a lot of time with those characters, so those characters are going to have to be rich enough that you want to take a very long journey with them. That's how I begin thinking about what I want to write about and who I want to write about.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

From working on heavily researched films such as 'Four Lions' and 'In the Loop,' I knew that research in itself is nothing and it's everything.

I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do.

Love stories are the most difficult to make.

You know, I look at my kids or my friends and think 'I couldn't love you any more.' And then I do.

I loved playing a dramatic role. There's a side of me a lot of people don't know, and when I do dramatic roles, it just all comes out.

Having 18 or 20 class players is a luxurious problem, and it doesn't mean that you have to play them all.

I love having those lyrics that at first make you think it's about one thing, but it's really about something so much more.

B.G. was just like his lyrics.

I'm not about hair and makeup.

What drew me into making movies is trying to make characters that step off the screen.

It just lies behind the slightly more normal things I do do. This sense that most people are crazy, if you look deep enough. Adults particularly, and children have to deal with them.