Quotes About Depth

It blows my mind - whenever you're stuck in one place, you think this is how the world is, and then you walk out and see there's so many layers to everything.

Whenever you have a role where you don't get to know anything about the character, you have to invent it yourself. You have to feel like it came from somewhere.

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

Most of my films have a lot of character development and exploration, whereas in most horror movies the characters are just cardboard.

When I was at college, the idea of fashion was more immediate to me, whereas art photography, the depth of it, was a different thing. Storytelling - fanciful storytelling - can only be told through fashion photography. It's the perfect way to play with fantasy and dreams.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

I feel today, with all the possibilities we have in our hands, all the new technology at our disposal, everything is becoming obvious. Nothing is surprising. You can see beautiful things on Instagram, but there is something that doesn't touch you deeply. Everything is normal, while there's nothing that grabs you and turns you upside down.

My only criteria while selecting roles is that it should be a lead part in an interesting story where the character has depth and layers.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

It's really rare in life that a situation is as black and white as we tend to paint it.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

Although humans see reality in colour, for me, black and white has always been connected to the image's deeper truth, to its most hidden meaning.

We are all somewhere or the other a little grey, not black and white. We have our imperfections.

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

I don't find anything black and white; I find grey in every person, and that is what excites me.

You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.

'Hamilton' just asks us all to go a little bit deeper: whether you're a hip-hop fan seeing musical theater for the first time, or if you were thinking you were gonna see some reprise of 1776, and now it's this? And you're thinking, 'Wait a minute, these people aren't white!' It asks you just take a step and go a little deeper.

I like characters that are complex. I don't like people who are simple to play and are either black or white.