Quotes About Interpretation

My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work.

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.

For me, the key is always trying to find the connection between the audience and the character I'm playing. That's important to me, in any work I do.

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols.

When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way - they make you look at the world in a different way.

Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

It's a mistake to ask a work of art to be all things to all people.

The key to conversation at work is flexibility and understanding how what you say might be perceived by others.

We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going to work until you get it in front of an audience.

It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision.

I think my work is very difficult to understand. Sometimes people do and sometimes they don't. I can't do much about that.

Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.

The documentation about the work isn't of real importance to me either. I've done lots of works without taking photographs.

Shouldn't "it works like a charm" be said about things that don't work?

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

Music and art is about ideas, I think. Especially music. You have the freedom to work with your ideas and your dreams and your fantasies, which is quite hard to do in many other places.

I have an intuitive understanding of technology. And the way I incorporate technology in the work tends to humanize it a great deal.

The relationship between the audience and the dancers goes through many different stages. Someone seeing my work for the first time may or may not pick up on that.

I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways to say things.

I always say the work is not a celebration as such, because that's sometimes just as weird and excluding and perverse.

Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.

The first thing, the main thing, about how I work is I need to understand the character.