Quotes About Interpretation

If I have to answer one more time, 'Why did you want to remake 'Straw Dogs?'' with the emphasis on the word 'why,' I'm going to flip out.

If I can hear the music then no, I don't hit a wrong note. But if I can't hear the music because the audience is screaming or the sound system is bad, then I'm subject to stray.

People's association with improvisation means one person playing an endless stream of notes over something, and it doesn't have to be.

Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I don't think anybody listens to music with the expectation that they're going to be presented with a sort of landscape painting.

I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I see it. It could be from a newspaper, on the street. It could be something I fell over.

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

People who don't know how old I am can cast me as the woman in 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' and can cast me as Stella in 'Streetcar Named Desire,' and they are miles apart.

My strength is translating emotion because I'm such a feeler.

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.

People don't stress enough that when they're writing lyrics, they are writing.

On stage you're supposed to have fun and play different licks and stretch out. You're not supposed to copy your records exactly.

Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.

During my time as a judge, as a justice, and as attorney general, I've had one overarching goal, and that is a strict interpretation and application of the laws and the Constitution. I would be Madisonian.

We know that this man has a proven record of being a 'strict constructionist.' Our President has given us his word that he will interpret the Constitution rather than make new laws from the bench.

Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.

In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and precise colour palate... The whole world as we experience it comes to us through the mystic realm of colour.

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.

'The Cauliflower' is not strictly a novel, as Barker says in her indispensable afterword.

Balanchine was just able to strike the balance between literal narrative and abstract dance.

People ask me if I think Anne Boleyn was a feminist... but she wasn't striking out on behalf of women, and she wasn't particularly keen on them.

It's the director's job to piece together my performance, his interpretation of my takes, each take, and string them together and make a statement. I'm red paint on a canvas for a painter.

I much rather coach a string quartet in an interpretation of Haydn or Beethoven than to teach the guitar.

I find it difficult to believe that God would want us to strip the courts of their powers to interpret the laws of this land, albeit with the divergent opinions. I shudder that my colleagues do not understand the dynamics of the Federal judiciary.

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.