Quotes About Interpretation

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying.

From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.

I approach directing from an actor's standpoint.

An artistic standpoint - I've watched a lot of ballet and source some inspiration from how they move, connect with each other, and find meaning in their movement.

When you write for somebody else, you've got to write from their standpoint. You can't really write from your own point of view.

Writers who want to interfere with adaptations of their work are basically undemocratic. The book still stands as an entity on its own.

One man's ceiling is another man's floor.

To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.

One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.

There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.

Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, — orthodoxy is my doxy, — heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.

What is one man's hate speech is another man's poetry.

It's the Point of Your View that Decides What You See - / One Man's Flop Is Another Man's Hit. / From Manners to Movies, the Picture Keeps Changing / Depending Upon Where You Sit.

Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men.

God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.