Quotes About Depth

She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away.

Even the greatest poets, I think, cannot quite get to the places that music can get to in the human - I was gonna say mind, but it's actually the entire body. It somehow seems to infuse the entire body.

Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions.

Deep poignant pathos can be described better in dark humour.

We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.

In a short story, you can use someone - we're only going to be with that person for maybe 10 pages, and they can have sort of a one note personality. And in a novel, you need to have arrows pointing more than one direction for that person.

I want to look at this character from all points of view. I know I don't want to make them all good or all bad or all anything... the story itself often helps create the character.

Without sounding too cliche, my part on 'Getting On' is the best role I've ever had. It is so rich, it is so well rounded, and I am happy to be right here. I feel like I lucked out and got one of the richest characters on TV because he is so complex.

I try my best to not just avoid cliches but to write with some meaning.

The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is.

In a team like Manchester City, Arsenal, and other big clubs, it's quite difficult just to have the same 11 players starting every week.

I collect paint like I collect sound. And then I use layers, layers, layers.

It's important for me to see as many colors in the character as possible.

In most scripts, one or two characters have a lot of colors.

A lot of comedic things are a real science - comedy has so many layers that I, at least, didn't see before working inside of it.

Cartoons only showed you certain things. The comic books go in deep.

Thanos has eight million backstories in the comics, but they're all kind of sad.

I'm not very good at story. In fact, compared to character and language, I barely care about story at all.

Don't go around asking the question, 'Is this character likeable?' and expect that to be compatible with serious literary endeavours. That's not what it's about.

I think good kids TV has got to have layers. It has to have compelling characters that everyone loves, but you can't dumb it down.

Everybody's a complex person. Everybody. Everybody's nuanced.

Positive characterizations are complex characterizations. That's all we need to know. They shouldn't be saccharine. They shouldn't feel like medicine.

I'm interested in characters that are complex people.

I really want to work on characters that have a lot of complexity and you don't always get that in comic book movies because they're not character explorations. I have nothing against movies like that, but I do see them as kind of like a cheeseburger.