Anne Frank Quotes

I'm drawn to the psychology of really interesting, flawed people.

My thing is, I like playing guys who have a really interesting internal monologue.

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

I am a very deep person. I run very deep in real life.

An actor knows much more about a character than the character knows about himself.

What was so brilliant about 'Girls' was that they allowed their characters to be ludicrous and selfish and faulted but didn't shy away from a deeper psychological foundation for that neuroses.

It is possibly not very helpful to our inner life to ponder a great deal on how the external world is reflected in our soul. By doing so, we do not get beyond a shadowy picture of the world of mental images in ourselves.

You cannot simplify human intelligence, emotion, and growth. To watch the frills and furbelows of a human psyche is fascinating.

...he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.

The more neurosis the more wisdom.

You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to you it's nothing, because you know you've twenty more layers to go.

The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

I have a fondness for writing about precocious, troubled teenagers, who are alienating, but kind of endearing. It's from remembering so clearly that time in my own life. I experienced myself as more dramatically troubled than I was, but I just remember how it felt.

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.

Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.

Bond doesn't have an inner life. There would be moments when I'd think, 'We need to gather our thoughts here and have a breather,' where in another novel you'd slow the pace, have some description and see what Bond feels about this. But Bond doesn't reflect. All you can do is move on to the next bomb or shark or car.

The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

The complexity of the emotional life of the play is what you live to work on.

It's interesting if you can talk about the large moments and also the small moments to understand the deepest complexities of a man by trying to imagine who they are.

I've always been attracted to darkness.

I can't analyse my appeal. If I did, I'd be in a straitjacket.

People sometimes seem surprised because often, you know, you know, there's a lot of tortured characters in the stuff I write.

There are so many ways in which the heart of man conceals itself from man!