Depth Quotes

European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films.

There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of 'Dreamgirls' was almost overwhelming to me.

The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.

Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

It's a really cool time for artists who want to strive for a little more depth in what they want to say to come forward. We live in a very fast world right now. We've got all this media and music which is so accessible to us, it's here one minute gone the next.

I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth.

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

Those of us who participate realize the incredible honor bestowed on us, but to really understand the true scope and depth of the movement requires more investigation and concentration.

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring.

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.

So the characters that I choose, I like to make sure that they have depth and that they have some sort of bite. It's more fun.

To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.

I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.

There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that.

If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.

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.

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

There seems to be more opportunities for old guys like me to do a little fighting and running because the lead characters also require a bit of depth and maturity and gravitas that one is likely to acquire doing drama all those years.

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it.

One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.

Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list.