Movie Depth Quotes

A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin.

I always feel in movies, I don't know if it's because I'm jaded, but I always feel like we don't go far enough.

I don't intentionally make deep movies.

Some movies are entirely too heavy, and some movies have no meat in them.

I'm not saying anything that's unknown, but movies are always cut down and there's a lot of complexity within the film that is not always widely accepted by the general audience, which is just a reality; a movie of a certain size, they don't want people to be too - it's a balance of how deep to keep going with these ideas.

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

It's really easy to make a movie that five people understand. It's really hard to make something that a lot of people understand and yet is not obvious, still has subtlety and ambiguity, and leaves you with something to do as a viewer.

Although 'L.A. Confidential' is a long movie, there's never a moment when you think, 'I'm loving this... but when's dinner?' Each time I see it, I discover something I hadn't noticed before. It has a tremendous skill in developing all the subplots.

I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.

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