Quotes About Depth

Matryoshkas are built like the human heart: Mysteries within mysteries.

You think you've uncovered a great mystery. You have no idea. You haven't even scratched the surface of the history of the Empire.

Nothing that happens on the surface of the sea can alter the calm of its depths

What do you like to do? Do you like to get fucked a long time, deeply, slowly, searchingly?

I only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind of actor who gives you the opportunity to really go there. And we really had to go there. I mean, we were both playing drunks.

Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What they were like at school. What shoes they wear. Spend days - weeks, months - being them until they thicken up and start to breathe.

Preaching a series allows you to go into greater depth in the text, and spending several weeks on one theme allows the teaching to be absorbed more thoroughly.

Those who are greatly occupied in physical or material matters lack sufficient knowledge or have only superficial understanding of spiritual matters. Therefore, such people's opinions and judgments concerning spiritual matters carry no weight.

I get to do some unbelievably layered things. The material that I'm given is so complex, and I'm so grateful for it, so I welcome any opportunities to push boundaries.

You can make poems out of anger as well as tenderness. You can make poetry out of anything. It can be the ugliest of emotions. It doesn't have to be sweetness and light.

To us, something can be uplifting even if the tone of it is not cheerful - it can be uplifting because it's just so well done.

If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their passions and what they're chasing.

In the 1980s, I was quite well known for my knitwear, and a lot of inspiration came from carpets, where I found ways to use structures and colors and depth of colors.

I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.

A well-written character is one where you don't know in which direction it's going; the character could spring a surprise any moment.

I had trained a bit in Bharatanatyam in the past but did not learn in depth. The same goes with jazz, western, and cinematic dance, as I was quite laid back with the training.

Limitations, be they practical or arbitrary, force artists to dig more deeply instead of settling for easy answers.

The most real characters in a great play are those who are so meticulously drawn that the audience could predict how many pairs of shoes they might have in their closet or how many close friends they had in grade school. Have any of our public figures been as fully developed in the media?

I enjoy it when characters love each other. It's more interesting, actually - it's less predictable.

There's more depth to Lionel. What I am finding so interesting about playing him is there's all these different layers. I prefer playing Lionel because he's a human being.

I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity.

Just as an audience member, I've always preferred dark things and very heavy, emotional things.

Every time when I start preparing my character for a movie, I always try to make up and create my own background story for the role in order to fill it with life.

I'm definitely interested in exploring human contradictions. Contradictions are what make us human - it's what defines us as human beings. Contradictions are what make characters interesting, and I've been lucky to be presented with characters who have a lot of contradictions.