Quotes About Interpretation

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

Everything we say has metamessages indicating how our words are to be interpreted: Is this a serious statement or a joke? Does it show annoyance or goodwill? Most of the time, metamessages are communicated and interpreted without notice because, as far as anyone can tell, the speaker and the hearer agree on their meaning.

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative.

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

It's a big flash of all these things and whatever you take out of that statement's one statement, one mind, one statement, one act, one show, and all the songs are one.

The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish.

A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.

I think there's nothing about evolution in the Bible; I think this is a statement of religious insecurity. But people have their beliefs.

I don't choose parts. I choose filmmakers. I'm done trying to make a statement with a character. What happens is, I craft a performance from the beginning to the end of the character. Then I release it to the director, and he interprets what I gave him.

Painting does more than just point to things. The very act of pointing is a value statement.

All my films are statements, especially when I write them.

Everybody in this public arena makes statements and gets interpreted different ways.

The poet is primarily a spokesman, making statements or incantations on behalf of himself or others - usually for both, for it is difficult to speak for oneself without speaking for others or to speak for others without speaking for oneself.

There are no statements in my paintings at all. Quite the opposite - I don't like people to go looking for them. If something makes me laugh, that's it.

I make my music to express everything I feel is necessary to communicate at a given time. Through music, I can express myself with statements that are more nuanced and more contradictory than factual details.

If you look at any station, you will see that what people are reporting comes from what they believe in, where they stand, their background, what their countries believe in.

Statistics is the grammar of science.

Aggregate statistics can sometimes mask important information.

You believe in God or statistics or the way your narrative differs from other people.

You always have to be very, very careful with statistics. It doesn't mean that we negate them completely; we just don't use them to the extent that people might think.

You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics.