Quotes About Reinterpretation

I'm just super into redefining things.

On occasion, I hear a rearrangement of a song that really makes me reevaluate it in a way.

Drag is all about taking references, taking pop culture and flipping it on its head.

I feel there is no harm in recreating songs.

Billa' was inspired by Hindi hit 'Don.'

But the danger is obvious: those who take this approach more often than not end up denying the potency of the Sermon and sometimes simply turn elsewhere—to Galatians and Romans and Ephesians—for their Christian ethical instruction. What many such readings of the Sermon really want is Paul, and since they can't find Paul in the Sermon, they reinterpret the Sermon and give us Paul instead.

Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.

Even when broaching the most familiar subjects – especially when broaching the most familiar subjects – we have always to be looking to illumine them in ways that make them seem unfamiliar, fresh, in ways that make us believe we have not seen them before.

I regard remaking a film as creating something again.

When you're reinterpreting the same material eight shows a week, it's impossible to lock in the 'ideal' performance. Things that felt great in previews can feel forced three months in; jokes that got big laughs in the rehearsal room may suddenly fall flat in front of a paying audience.

Some actors want to keep riding the horse that made them famous, but it's not interesting to me. I like to turn an archetype on its head.

Writing is a recording that you can cut up and reassemble. Sound is something you can cut up and reassemble. Film, video - you know, the main tools of culture - can all be cut up and reassembled.

If you take a Baroque commode and put a Baroque clock on top of it, maybe it is not so interesting as when you put a computer on top of it. Then you see both items in a new way.

Seth Grahame-Smith

Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.

We remake 'Hamlet' all the time. That's sort of what we do, humans.

I don't remake any movie, whether old or of other language.

Remakes have been done forever. People talk about 'Scarface' and don't even know it was a remake.

I think, in history, everything is about the remix.

I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.

My ideal role would be anything that allows me to play anyone the public is familiar with and to be able to show them that, but in a new light.

I improve on misquotation.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

The different arenas that I've been able to do Iron Man in are fun, but some more than others. The anime that we did early on was tough. That was the hardest one. It was a reinterpretation of a reinterpretation. I don't think I'd do that again.