Quotes About Interpretation

A musical by its very nature doesn't allow for a lot of nuances.

Sometimes, if you leave yourself open, an actor can bring nice nuances to a character.

People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.

I'm an originalist and a textualist, not a nut.

Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around.

I understand why people went nuts for 'The Artist.' We use words so much, it's nice to be able to explore a different way of communication, to be able to express silently what someone - or something - is thinking or feeling.

Either the Obamacare is a dead letter, or the origination clause is; we can't have both.

We all look at the same object in different ways.

Indian nouns are extremely connotive; that is, the name does more than simply denote the thing to which it belongs - in denoting the object, it also assigns to it some quality or characteristic.

And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.

Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.

I'm not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary fallout from the fundamental thing, which is basically to create an aesthetic object.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.

Data and data sets are not objective; they are creations of human design. We give numbers their voice, draw inferences from them, and define their meaning through our interpretations.

But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

I realized I couldn't be a journalist because I like to take a side, to have an opinion and a point a view; I liked to step across the imaginary boundary of the objective view that the journalist is supposed to have and be involved.

What is the truth? Is it what you experience? Is it what I experience? Or is there some objective truth in between?

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.

I'm trying to expand the notion of curating. Exhibitions need not only take place in galleries, need not only involve displaying objects. Art can appear where we expect it least.

Stories are not explanations of the world we live in. Science does that, and math does that. Our obligation as fiction writers is to enhance the mysteries.

I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.

Be obscure clearly.

I act by observation.