Quotes About Reinterpretation

The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.

In an homage, you always want to subvert it and have fresh new takes. You don't want the audience to say, 'Oh they just did 'The Amityville Horror' there,' you always want to add something new.

I guess I've never really done a straight adaptation. It's been more like 'in the spirit of,' you know?

I am always searching for something different or something fresh, something hasn't been done. But the truth is, at the end of the day, we're all sort of retelling something. We're doing a version of something that's already been done.

The idea of taking classic American stories and reinterpreting them for a time and place is not just commercially viable. These stories also carry a sensual nature of what it meant to be an American, and they deserve to be reinterpreted.

Memory revises me.

We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of like a really cool kind of re-imagining.

Hacks didn't destroy, they just...creatively amended.

The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently.

Non pas, tu t'en doutes, celle d'un retour en arrière aux Lumières, à la raison, à la république et à l'humanisme, ce qui n'aurait, je t'ai dit pourquoi, aucun sens, mais une tentative de les penser à nouveaux frais, non pas « comme avant », mais au contraire après et à la lumière de la déconstruction qui a eu lieu.

I think it's fun playing a part that lots of other people have played, in a way.

And I wanted to be able to listen, to digest bloody images, to paint them flat and unremarkable onto the vase of posterity. To release him from it and make him Achilles again

The Mahabharata is our story, but in this modern version - our Shakuni has an English avatar.

When I was a child, I first noticed that neither history as I was taught it nor the stories I was told seemed to lead to me. I began to fix them.

If I don't like the way something unfolds, I reimagine it the way I'd rather have seen it happen.Memory doesn't dictate truth.

reeducating and "re-righting" history

There's no such thing as lost; there's just adjusting your perspective" -Scott

Once you lose the kingdom theme, which is central to the gospels, everything else becomes reinterpreted in ways that radically distort, that substitute a subtly different "gospel" message for the one Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are eager to convey.

Jesus Himself, the Lover and Uniter of humanity, often stood up and spoke out for what was right or needed to be reinterpreted, even though it caused problems in the "church" He was loyal to. So much so, they killed Him for it.

Tarih gibi bo?anmalar da zaman zaman yeniden yorumlan?r.

Whether in science or the arts, if we look for the source of an achievement we can observe that what a man does either repeats or refutes what someone else has done — repeats it in other tones, refines or amplifies or simplifies it, loads or overloads it with meaning; or else rebuts, overturns, destroys, and denies it, but thereby assumes it and has invisibly used it. Opposites are born from opposites.

Study circles. They began also to have their study circles, studying, discussing the Gospels, and think­ ing about the political and social circumstances in which they were reinterpreting the Gospels. In doing that, they discovered the need to change the country, and they got a new consciousness-a historical, politi­cal consciousness of the reality.

To see what Paul sees, Christians today are summoned to join Paul: the reality of Jesus demands that the Old Testament be read not by the book, but against the grain.

reimagining