Quotes About Interpretation

I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said, 'You are a dancer. Look at how you're moving: all that strange energy is like modern dance.'

My mother was a barmaid and I was raised in a trailer park. I'm used to that language. I put it on the screen so that people could interpret it as they wish.

I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.

Already the new-born children interpret love In the voices of mothers.

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer.

We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality.

Nothing capable of being memorized is history.

You have first to experience what you want to express.

It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.

No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.

Feedback often tells you more about the person who is giving it than about you.

There is nothing so special or boring nor there are any weak or strong things in this world. It is we and our surficial perception that creates these types of environment

Some see the glass as half full, others see it as half empty, and then there are those who see it as a glass of water.Open your eyes and your mind to see beyond the obvious." ~

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.