Quotes About Meaning

When we are making a song for Billie I want it to resonate and speak the truth with her and want it to be a piece of fabric she can wear.

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.

To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

For me, the content and the character that I play are the two most important factors.

I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.

I hate to think life is just facts and laws.

Don't worry about the little factual details. Get to the heart of it.

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

I'm very drawn to the way in which a life lived can be an art of sorts or a failed art, and a life-lived-told can be art as well.

We're very good at telling what happens and showing people while it happens... But sometimes television fails to take the time to say 'Why did it happen? What does it mean?' - To step back a little bit.

I don't even know what 'successful' means. We're all failures. Look at the world. We're all complicit.

I never said I was at the Alamo. Someone else said I was at the Alamo. Now I'm a nutter. I don't think that's fair.

When you're falling through space time has no meaning.

Sentences are not as such either true or false.

I can't tear up a poem and be a sound bite for you. Why is that so hard for anyone to understand?

When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters.

More attention and thought goes into naming a character in 'Call Of Duty' than all the work that can go into certain movies. Blood and sweat and tears go into figuring out the names because they are so important. The call signs say a lot about you. The brotherhood that's evoked by the name is quite profound.

Even if somebody wanted to tell me what one of my songs meant to him or her, I can't do it - I would be probably put to tears every time.

Oscar Niemeyer really inspired me. He's from South America, where nature has meaning. And his architecture was not expensive or high tech but artistic and spiritual. I like that.

'What is this', and 'How is this done?' are the first two questions to ask of any work of art. The second question immediately illuminates the first, but it often doesn't get asked. Perhaps it sounds too technical. Perhaps it sounds pedestrian.

HD doesn't mean anything to me. It's a technical thing. It's like demographics. A lot of people know about it.

If you're going to make a film, and you're going to have dialogue, and you want to take the characters seriously, let's understand what they're saying. If there is going to be technical dialogue, let's render it in a way that the audience can understand it and expect that it's not going to be so far over their heads.

It's amazing that you can listen to any song and you can always tell when there's some substance beneath it and when there isn't. Even if it's poetically written and technically brilliant, I'd rather hear something that's all over the place but has some soul to it.

It's technically extremely difficult to get down what you really mean, not what you think you mean, or what you think sounds good, but what's really there, what you really have to express, in words that somehow convey that meaning in an approximate way.