Quotes About Interpretation

I'm very careful of not being critical of other people's movies, which work in different styles. I think some of my movies can be interpreted as critical of their subjects.

At times I'd much rather talk about other work.

Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.

I think of myself as an entertainer: I'm a performing entertainer, I'm a stand-up comic. But there's an artist at work here, too. One who interprets his world through his own filter.

To work from nature is to improvise.

I guess I dont come to the work without baggage. I have an idea of what I want my pictures to look like in my head, and if they dont match up, I find it frustrating.

A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.

I don't want people running around saying Gwen Brooks's work is intellectual. That makes people think instantly about obscurity. It shouldn't have to mean that, but it often seems to.

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

An actor only has his own understanding and experience to work with.

There is no Sixth Commandment in art. The poet is entitled to lay his hands on whatever material he finds necessary for his work.

I've been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel.

It might work with one orchestra, and the next orchestra - the oboe player might not get it. It's different every time, but some of the orchestras do end up enjoying it and having a great time.

Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work, it speaks for itself. Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle.

One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.

Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible.

The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.

I've learned that people latch onto labels and stereotypes. There was a period when I was asked in every single interview how I liked being the new Frank Sinatra... I think people will soon realize that I do a lot more than interpret old songs.

Somebody could look at me and go, 'She's dressed black,' or 'She's behaving in the stereotypical way of a black lesbian.' But this is how I feel most comfortable. This is my authentic self. I want the freedom to be that regardless of how someone interprets it.

Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.

If you come in with all of the answers, you might create something that's very beautiful and powerful, but I think it will also seem sterile if you don't leave room for people to have their own reactions to it.

I look very serious. I look stern even when I'm not stern. If I'm not feeling cross, I look a little bit cross. I can't help it. It's just my face.

Well, don't tell Steve Niles but I just don't think horror works in comics.