Quotes About Interpretation

I've always believed you should sing songs you can really put yourself into. I think the emotion you put into it is just as important as singing the notes.

Conducting is about communication. You don't play any notes, but you communicate with the musicians.

There's always more than one way to play the same notes because of the nature of guitar.

The key to performing a song isn't always about hitting the right notes, but about telling a story.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

There's nothing new, even 'new' is inspired by something. We're all, either consciously or unconsciously, we're inspired.

Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.

I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.

I think great scores have to be noticed, but they're wrong when you hear the music come in.

One of the most fun things for me, as a writer, is when readers ask questions like, 'Oh, I noticed that you have a lot of water and baptism imagery in your book. Did you do that on purpose?'

What I noticed is that the lens from which people want to look at 'Minari' is just from that Asian-American angle. And I think that can end up being very frustrating. Because the craft of the film, and this film itself, is meant to embody a lot of different things.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

Test audiences are notorious for getting kind of itchy when people talk too much, and you have to trust your instincts that they don't necessarily understand that you're not digesting the movie on a scene-by-scene basis.

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

It's always fun to talk about a novel.

One of my favorite things is to first read a novel and then see the movie. I enjoy picturing the characters and then later, seeing them on the screen, comparing how they're different.

Everything in a novel has to be intentional, even the things that aren't.

Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over.

Freud was just a novelist.

I don't know if a novelist ever fully detaches him- or herself from what they wrote and the way they wrote it. I can watch 'Presumed Innocent' again and again, and I will always be bothered by the same things that will never bother anybody else.

Like all novelists, I'm interested in the filters between reality and the imagination.