Quotes About Reinterpretation

Should philosophers be expected to change the world? Such an expectation seems to me extravagant. Marx himself didn't change the world: he reinterpreted it, then other people changed it.

I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.

We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.

Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.

Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period with a very critical eye.

Ish #1 "It's not your mama's macaroni and cheese if you used spaghetti noodles.

I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.

'House of Wax' is a remake, but 'House of Wax' is very different. It's like a background concept, but it's a completely different story.

There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.

I like a cliche if it's sort of turned on its head.

Reinterpreting sacred texts in the name of fidelity to God and kindness to neighbor is precisely what the Talmud does, and many Jewish scholars do, to this day.

Miss Saigon from Madam Butterfly. The Hours from Mrs. Dalloway. The Lion King from Hamlet

the whole point of Bagatelle is that you trifle with the stories that people think are set in stone.

It is not only just a Indian phenomenon but it's happening the world over. People are taking old movies and remaking them; old serials are being made into web series. There is no harm in remixing the song if you do it well.

What was old can be brought back new, and I bring that to the table. I bring mannerisms, facials, body language, positioning.

the past had been no better or worse than the present—the human brain glossed over horror and hardship and revived what it wanted to glorify.

When Nixon opened the door to China in the early 1970s, Chinese artists got their first view of the West. Suddenly five centuries of Western art lay before them as a stylistic smorgasbord. Chinese artists could reinterpret it out of admiration or try to replace it. They choose the former.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.

Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.

Cubism. Seeing beyond what is on the surface. Moving both eyes and a nose to the side of the face. Dicing bodies and tables and guitars as if they were celery sticks, and rearranging them so that you have to really see them to see them.

History, unendingly revised and reinterpreted, is seen upon examination as merely a different class of fiction; becomes hazardous if viewed as having any innate truth beyond this. Still, it is a function that we must inhabit. Lacking any territory that is not subjective, we can only live upon the map. All that remains in question is whose map we choose, whether we live within the world's insistent texts or else replace them with a stronger language of our own.