Pu La's writing is multi-layered, multi-faceted, and deep.
I experience each moment like baklava: rich in this layer, and this layer, and this layer.
Life is multi-layered and there's no way I could do my life justice in one pat answer.
I aspire to make a record that sounds better 10 listens in than it does after two, and still, at 50 listens, you're picking out things that add a depth and a thoughtfulness to it; there's enough in there that you can still be extracting pieces out of it.
One thing I always really enjoyed about Quincy Jones' production technique was that there were so many layers to every song. Like, one week you'd hear a new trumpet-line, then the next week you'd hear - be hearing a new guitar-line.
Poaching is a very complicated, multi-layered problem.
I love bags, and little bags within bags. Everything is contained.
I'm predisposed to believe we live in a complicated, enmeshed reality. There's no authentic or organic.
Keep everything in context, and try to have each line doing more than one thing - not just giving exposition but also revealing character and history, etc.
Things become complicated if there are enough people to complexify them.
Commenting about the 1991, 19,000-member congressional Congressional staff.
If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.
All too often, female characters, in particular, aren't multi-layered enough.
When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.
There's very few directors I think in this industry that would pitch to a studio that they wanted to do a multi-layered almost at times existential high action, high drama surreal film that's sort of locked in his mind. And then have an opportunity to do that.