Quotes About Interpretation

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.

I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.

It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.

Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done.

Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.

My movies, in general, I have the impression that when they finish of course they're never originally what you had in mind.

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better.

History is the collective consciousness of the then intellectuals and not just some numbers, time and events.

Don't judge a book by its movie.

Film is one if three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.

A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do.

I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don't want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.

Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

Music possesses much richer means of expression and it is a more subtle medium for translating the 1000 shifting moments of the feelings of the soul.

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.