Quotes About Interpretation

What I've learned over the years... judges are conscientious... not like lawyers, who give opinions.

Our emphasis on political coverage from the day we were born here was well-founded, and we believe there were opportunities there that we could do it in a more interesting, appealing and balanced way.

The chance to work on Broadway choreography as opposed to having to deliver Broadway choreography can be two distinct things.

More often than not, the fans really gravitate towards who's on the cover as opposed to how it's drawn or how it's composed, and so, a lot of the time, what an artist likes will be very different from what a fan likes.

If stars behave in an erratic fashion, it's called 'colorful,' as opposed to, 'Well, maybe there's a problem there.'

To think in terms of what the effect of a story is going to be, as opposed to trying to discover its inner logic, is one of the fundamental dangers in the process.

I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite.

If you're working opposite an actor who can act, then all you have to do is listen and respond.

When people give you a writing assignment, they're asking what you think. That's the very opposite of being an actor. When you're an actor, no one wants to hear what you think.

People see things in the opposite way that I do. There are places that spirit, soul and emotion reach.

It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.

It's too easy to say that orange is happy and black is sad. To me, black is perfect. You can fill it with the emotion you want to express.

Crazy Arms' is one of those songs that can get crushed beneath its own weight. It's kind of like 'Orange Blossom Special' or 'Rocky Top' or 'Crazy.' But when you go back to the original interpretation, you hear it in a new way.

Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.

It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

'The Cherry Orchard' is a masterpiece, and there can never be too many adaptations.

Let me say that I've never thought to conduct because the conductor has to think to the music before the orchestra. And the orchestra comes later. For me, it's terrible.

You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.

I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.

Through conducting, you express through your arms, through your face and even the body, what you want to tell, so the musicians of the orchestra understand.

I feel I'm most successful when I'm playing a concert, and it doesn't necessarily seem like I'm playing a saxophone but am coming off more like an orchestra or something like that.

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.

Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs, and you're usually best listening.