Quotes About Interpretation

I never work from the script. I get the script more or less.

To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient.

You don't really work together with Clint Eastwood. I mean, he takes the script and he shoots it - and he shoots it very faithfully.

You don't read it in the sense of reading a message; it doesn't work like that. What's happening is that the Shadows are responding to the attention you pay them.

An artist's work is a synthesis of much more than the work of other creators.

If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism.

A lot of my work is about is about events, but I also think a lot of my work is about fragmentation.... You have to break something down in order to have the parts synthesize.

When I told my son that I had to give a talk about my work to non-mathematicians, he warned me that regular people don't think like mathematicians.

There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words.

Sarcasm doesn't appear to work on him. If that's true, I'm in trouble: It's my normal mode of communication.

I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.

I do like certain kinds of frames for work. That's important.

The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.

As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.

The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.

I put a lot of work into my lyrics. Not all my stuff is meant to be scrutinized, though.

This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.

The characters have desperation and it doesn't work out for everyone. Maybe it's not fair because I'm responding to the adaptations that smooth out the edges.

The work of art, though bound by its genetic markings and indelible fingerprints, is boundless in the infinite elaborations of its destiny, and therefore in the range of its interpretations.

All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.

The way I sometimes approach my work, when I look at a script for the first time, is to identify what the archetypes are and what the writing is trying to do in that context.

You can't create a work without being aware that it will change dependent upon the context or the society where it is developed or consumed.

My criticism hasn't necessarily been informed by the critics I've read. The conversations I've had with friends and fellow musicians have shaped my thinking more than the work of any critic.