Quotes About Misinterpretation

Around the world, when China has good results, people always think something bad.

I sometimes think many reviewers write the reviews of my films even before they see them.

I can be intense in a lot of ways, but not the way you see the guy in 'The Salvation.'

I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!

Indonesian people don't get satire; that's the thing. There's no thought in our humor.

A lot of times the thoughts of religion are not all bibliocentric, sometimes they're cultural. Then it becomes cultural to say, 'it's wrong to do this and it's wrong to do that.' It becomes a misinterpretation of scripture.

I don't get paid what people think I get paid for fighting.

I think there's a little confusion between humor and 'gross' passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable, because they aren't the same thing.

Something I worry about a lot when I write, that I'm less worried about with a computer, is about the ways in which English is ambiguous. I'm constantly worrying about ways in which the reader might misinterpret what I've written. So I've actually spent a lot of time consciously crafting the mechanics of my prose style to use constructions that are less likely to be misinterpreted.

But people have an unfortunate habit of assuming they understand the reality just because they understood the analogy. You dumb down brain surgery enough for a preschooler to think he understands it, the little tyke's liable to grab a microwave scalpel and start cutting when no one's looking.

The only good Indians I ever saw were dead.

Les hommes sont parfois si maladroits qu'on les prend pour le contraire de ce qu'ils sont vraiment.

Every reading is a misreading.

Si consideramos la hipótesis de que la gente no es leída, se entienden muchas cosas que no se han comprendido durante mucho tiempo pensando que ha sido leída.

The Faith No More stuff isn't about me. It was a band. Maybe that's where a lot of journalists got the wrong idea. You don't just pluck a song off a tree and put vocals on it.

I think everybody who sees me would think that I'm really scary or something. But I'm not!

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

I didn't direct any of the 'Saw' sequels, but people thought I did.

In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called!

My advice gets misconstrued as being mean.

I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.

Instead, we are living inside our own little narrative bubble of the moment, frequently misattributing cause and effect and therefore completely imprisoned in thoughts and emotions that are both inaccurate and misguided.

McCandless conveniently overlooked the fact that London himself had spent just a single winter in the North and that he'd died by his own hand on his California estate at the age of forty, a fatuous drunk, obese and pathetic, maintaining a sedentary existence that bore scant resemblance to the ideals he espoused in print.

The world didn't always sound right when it was first explained.