Quotes About Depth

People pitch me the crazy mystery mind-blowing thing all the time. My response is, 'Great, but how do the characters feel about it, and how do we reveal new facets and new dimensions of who they are?'

No, I think the pitching today has more depth.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

I think there's art, and then there's illustration. Art comes from a deeper place.

I like dark places.

If you're just making people laugh, that can be one-dimensional. You have to bring something artistic into it, so it's working on another plane or is more complex.

When I am experiencing a complex story or novel, the broader planes, and also details, tend to fall away.

I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and depth and flat and falling and rising was coming into being in my mind.

Don't plant too deeply. Pay attention to the directions on the seed packets as far as how deep and how close together to plant the seeds.

Disco music can only take you so far because it's plastic.

My characters are not plastic.

The bench is really important in the NBA because if you have a good bench, then you can make that playoff push even harder.

And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.

The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.

Many of my favorite films, if someone were to tell me simply what they're about, I probably wouldn't be that interested. Plot often has so little to do with what's at the heart of a film.

When you describe a character's dream, it has to be sharper than reality in some way and more meaningful. It has to somehow speak to plot, character, and all the rest.

I like poems that are complex.

So many poems you go into and come up empty.

Short stories and poems are an intense burst of emotions.

I'm a poet.

When you are romancing a woman in a relationship, it should be poetic. It should have layers.

The music that we listen to these days, everything is right there in your face. There's no real mystery. It's not poetic. I want people to think. I want to make people listen to my lyrics.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.