Quotes About Interpretation

I never want to dumb it down. If there's any simplification, it's just a simplification to make sure that the reader understands the point that the character is trying to make.

Unless a design is infused with a personality - and by that, I mean mine or someone else who really understands what design is all about - it will never, ever have any mystery.

With these scripts and these writers, so much of it is done for me. Because we don't just throw words around: we make sure the audience understands.

The fact of the matter is that nobody understands what John Coltrane is doing except John Coltrane. And maybe not even him. So we're all experiencing it on this subconscious level.

It's very important for humans to see dance, it's a language that everybody understands.

True critic is someone who loves movies and understands it.

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.

As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine.

A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.

I never quite know if what I do will be understood.

I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.

I make movies in order to make things understood, not to be shocking.

I understood the craft of photography when done by an artist is art.

The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to misunderstand you. Writing so that you cannot be misunderstood anticipates and preempts those who would willfully distort what you are trying to say.

50 Cent's a songwriter. He understood and liked my music, but he didn't understand me.

I've never understood why someone does a cover of a song just exactly the same. If you do something, do it a little different so people have a new experience.

I understood that synergistic dance between photographer and object - 'muse,' if you will, 'model,' whatever you call us. It's that silent language of communication, like being psychic with each other.

One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.

The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.

Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way.