Quotes About Interpretation

You don't have to make a grand, exaggerated sound to sing opera.

If I got hit by a bus tomorrow, you'd get people going: 'Oh, we should make 'Mother' into an opera, it's what he would have wanted.'

I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.

I can operate in half-a-song format.

In order to make a film, you have to operate on many different levels, making all these different forms of expression converse, and so I just followed that intuition.

I remember how my world expanded in amazing fashion by that magical operation of translating words into images, and images into stories.

If I have a certain opinion, I try to incorporate that into my work.

I believe every person has a story that comes out from the way they talk, their opinion, their mindset and their body language.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make.

It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion.

I'm very opinionated about movie musicals when they're adapted from live shows. You'll sit still for a three-minute song in a theater. But in movies, a glance from someone's eyes will tell you the whole story in a few seconds.

I'm very opinionated and passionate when it comes to my characters.

I give opinions, not advice.

In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.

If we can't agree on objective truth, then how are we ever going to agree on opinions?

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

God and other artists are always a little obscure.....

The great things of life are what they seem to be, and for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, are often difficult to interpret. But the little things of life are symbols. We receive our bitter lessons most easily through them.

A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets make a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.