Quotes About Interpretation

If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn't be nearly as interesting.

I'm always conscious of what I'm writing, conscious of what the actor may ask me. I have a defense for nearly every line in the song.

I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.

Things come to you without you necessarily knowing what they mean.

The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together.

For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.

I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.

Everybody is grappling with their own moral compass, and that needle, like any needle, can't just stick. It's always floating a little bit, and depending on where you're standing, it's hard to read.

The less the camera is able to capture what you're seeing in a scene, the more editing it needs.

I think sometimes negative campaigning, like so much, is in the eye of the beholder, and I don't think we'll ever get rid of it.

Language is the means by which we negotiate our relationship with time.

Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult.

I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.

Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea is confirmed by the difference between the 'Soave sia il vento' and 'Kentucky Woman.' We have different words for 'art' and 'idea' because they are two different things.

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Films are neither true nor false. That includes my films, as well as others. They may make claims that are true or false, but films are too complex. They have too many ingredients.

As an actor, you're always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.

We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.

If you don't see me act, my work is done. The actor must never take the character beyond the scope of the movie.

An adjective, such as 'flimsy,' describes someone's access to a thing, such as 'argument.' But that's just that someone's access. It may be accurate. But it's theirs nevertheless.

Every new car, you open the door, and you look at all those internal mellifluous swoopy bits, and they have no meaning.

Art can articulate new ideas.

I knew becoming an analyst would allow me to see the game from a new perspective.