Just as our brains fill in the details of an image our eyes record only roughly, so, too, do our brains employ tricks we are unaware of to fill in details about people we don't know intimately.
I love exploring the characters that I play, but the reason I sign on for something isn't the details of the story but the universal message.
For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.
People know the broad strokes of what it's like to be Spider-Man, but I wanted to really get into the details.
I try to write short novels and leave details out not because I want to be minimalist, but because I think that it enables the readers' creativity and interaction with the book.
I think it's the small things, the smaller episodes and details that I linger on and try to draw meaning from, just personally.
We all know how to play tennis. We all know how to hit the ball. It's more just about those details - managing all those early rounds and just managing yourself to make sure you're ready for whatever is coming up next.
In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house.
When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.
Being a rock and roll band is about spending time on the details so that you can hone your own identity.
I would like 'Dark Souls' to be a broad exploration game filled with so many veiled things and details.
Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon.
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
I get extremely detail-oriented. In my most stressed-out days, I get way more focused on those details than anyone should be.
Even the details of a rifle, which are nothing but mechanical, if they are made carefully, with attention, become beautiful, satisfying.