Quotes About Interpretation

The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.

I'm always interested in storytelling and whatever form that comes in.

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture to express different storytelling ideas.

If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.

When you're an actress, you are a part of the storytelling process. You have to do the same thing when you direct.

I've always been drawn to storytelling, and acting is the most immersive form of storytelling you can get involved with! You're actually in the story when you're acting.

A lot of storytelling... you're a bit hypnotized by it, and things just come out in certain ways, and you look at it and try to gather it.

With acting, there's a certain amount of independence you have within the framework of the storytelling. When it's done well, it's a collaborative medium.

When I read a script, the important thing is that I can connect in some way with that character and have some idea from what his story is that I can tell that story too, because that's all acting is, is storytelling.

I don't consider what I do 'art.' It's 'storytelling.'

I always approach storytelling with the idea that the audience will get it. They understand almost better than we do, because they get to watch it from an entirely different perspective with new eyes.

History is ultimately storytelling. I think the more stories you write in life - and I've written a lot of screenplays, a lot of short stories - you realize it's your interpretation of events that people read, and they absorb that.

Music in Africa is perceived so differently than Western classical music - it's language and storytelling.

I feel, in storytelling, people are so afraid that you won't get it unless you pound them over the head.

I purposely adopted a style in my storytelling wherein I don't have to explain everything or why the story is moving in a particular way.

Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain. Some see it in a leg of mutton, others in a compound fracture; and to expect others to accept one's own definition of it is as absurd as to expect all humanity to use the same toilet-brush.

Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

It seems a lot of straight men need a word coach or a lawyer when it comes to discussing 'Sex and the City.'

My definitions of comedy, drama, and straight man are all blurry for me. I don't think of it in those terms.

My judicial philosophy is straightforward.

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.

One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.

My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to receive them, because they don't know the code.