Depth of Story Quotes

I love complex characters - strong females who are vulnerable but have a life and soul. That's what I'm drawn to and what I enjoy most.

Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books.

A simple story filmed with limited sets can often be more effective than a costly extravaganza. provided it had depth and allows the audience to identify with the character.

We can't put up a movie that looks beautiful but doesn't have substance.

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.

I've refused roles because they're too simplistic.

Books can create a depth of story, a background of information and ideas, that televison and movies can't. Sure, the television shows may shock, but only on a superficial level. They'd never risk market share to really explore the issues. They report, but don't analyze or suggest any new ways for living our lives.

The villain is usually the most interesting part. But it has to be a smart thing. Just dumb cliche villains with a Russian accent and big muscles and a mean face, I don't know. My Russian accent isn't that great, and the muscles aren't that big and the mean face is not enough. You know what I mean? It gets very boring. Tedious stuff.

Truth is, I don't like movies that are only good once; I tend to dismiss them. I like movies that get better the more you watch them.

What I'd look for are roles in which the heroine's character has substance rather than just glamour.

I'm drawn to roles that have real substance, that aren't just the victim or the teenage girl or the girlfriend.

As I get older, I'm looking more and more for films that are actually about something rather than just narrative vehicles.

It's fun doing 'McLeod's,' but at the same time the show doesn't go very deep, so there is only so far you can go with a part like that.

People have these ideas about comic books and their adaptations as flashy and sort of surface-y, broad-strokes-type projects, but they're not, really.

If I'm going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.