Quotes About Reinterpretation

I always like playing with some sort of typical convention or idea and turning it over.

I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.

The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.

psychological technique called reframing: taking a concept and relabelling it so as to alter its meaning.

No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.

I present classics in an unfamiliar way or unfamiliar ingredients and preparations in a classical way.

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

I'm always interested in the spooky repurposing of everyday things.

Poetry is never abandoned, it is only remixed.

if the classic idea of the Atonement ever again resumes a leading place in Christian theology, it is not likely that it will revert to precisely the same forms of expression that it has used in the past; its revival will not consist in a putting back of the clock.

El país recuerda demasiado y recuerda mal. En muchos sentidos, es prisionero de su pasado.

James M. McPherson

Filmmakers have to really find a unique take on something if they're going to explore an already-explored genre of movies.

Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.

Film gives us a second chance at a first impression.

When you look at our Godzilla, you won't feel any nostalgia.

When the Bible says black, I say white. When it says good, I say evil. When it says Behold, Jehovah is a God of Light, I say, Behold, He is the Lord of dark places, for his children gnash their teeth and cry unto him and are not heard.

Each person must reinterpret his family experience from an evolutionary point of view, from a spiritual point of view, and discover who he really is. Once we do that, our control drama falls away and our real lives take off.

It would be meaningful if 'Taxi Driver' were to reinterpret cases that were unresolved in the past. A 16-episode miniseries was too short to contain all the stories that we could have told.

In my mind, I'm no longer daunted by the idea of a remake. In fact, I now look at it as a genre unto itself - so long as you make it your own.

We retell our favorite stories. That's what we've done since we were sitting around campfires. It's a part of the human spirit. It doesn't have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite. That's how you can break new ground: by rethinking something that's already been done.

Here, perhaps, is a purpose for history, somewhere between the record of death and its constant reinterpretation. Only a history of mass killing can unite the numbers and the memories. Without history, the memories become private, which today means national; and the numbers become public, which is to say an instrument in the international competition for martyrdom.

One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect of food culture or chef culture that people can look at in a new way.

Every time you said it, you really said it. It wasn't like a sequel where Hollywood just lines up the same actors and hopes it works again. It was like a remake with a new director and crew trying something else and starting from scratch.