Rosemarie DeWitt Quotes

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

I'm interested in writing that explores all sides of human beings.

I think people have a lot of layers. I know I do in particular.

I think you can have varied and seemingly contradictory depictions of a single person because we all have many facets and, in a way, many selves.

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.

I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and family is pretty rich.

Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.

What interests me are the complexities and contradictions and struggles and joys of messy human beings.

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

For me, I start at the place that my characters are human. I start at the place that they are onions that are layered and meant to be peeled, just as we as human beings are.

I'm not the dude with the message. I'm a human being with different sides, different shades and different emotions, different feelings.

People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

Everybody has a lot of darkness in them because without that you're not a whole person.

I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.

All of us want something in life, all of us have flaws, and all of us have strengths. So, I always try to discover those things in a character and then try to expose it in one way or another.

We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, they can't get anywhere near as complex as a real person.

There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

People are composed of many things, and in my work, what influences me is the complexity of people - the chiaroscuro of dark and light. When I play a strong guy, I try to find, where is he weak? And, conversely, when I play a weak guy, where is he strong?

One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions - there's all this contradictory information inside a human personality.

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human.

I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.

If you're going to play human beings, and you're going to play them three-dimensionally, you have to show every side of them.