Quotes About Interpretation

So often when we historicize material, we use this big wide-angle lens.

Barbara Januszkiewicz

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it.

The meaning of the words in my songs are very important to me. But what's most important to me is that the music works.

As a writer, I try to turn my feelings and experiences into a different form entirely, something that gives me mastery over them and also makes them meaningful to other people.

I have always believed that if a film has only two characters, but they do not make any sense, then the film's meaningless.

No film should be meaningless.

My job is to make meaning. To make meaning in a meaningless world.

Words take on many different meanings.

I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.

Stories are told over time, and so they naturally accrue meanings.

I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant.

I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.

It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

When you're doing something where you really like the material, it doesn't matter what medium it's in.

I don't think there's any more synesthetic medium than film.

Acting is acting, be it any medium.

When you're a writer, your song has to resonate with the person you're writing for in order for them to want to sing it. But if you're an artist, you can sing whatever you want.

It resonates with me the way women tell stories, the way they see things, and the way they attach what they see to certain emotions.

An actor's resource base must be life itself.

'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

When I read a script I respond to it like an audience member. At the end of the film, if I'm there in the audience's mind, I have done my job.