Quotes About Interpretation

What I really think about Banksy is I think he's a genius; he's a great artist, and I like his stuff. But he's got to accept it if, from time to time, someone will need to paint over his work.

People lump us into the nu-metal category, and there might be a hint of that stuff, but if you really listen to a nu-metal band and then listen to Slipknot, it's so apples and oranges that it's retarded.

There is a reductive nature to the Internet, and it's not limited to comic book news sites and stuff: it's everybody. There is a reductive nature of it, by which anything that's said very quickly gets reduced down to the next. Reduced, reduced, reduced to the point where rumors with some sense of nuance to them just become fact.

Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art.

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

I'm pretty sarcastic, and sometimes that doesn't come across on the Internet. It seems like I'm being rude or stupid.

What Democrats call 'nuanced', most people refer to as 'stupidity.'

A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style.

I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.

I'm not very aware of styles. We never talk about styles before we start shooting, or even during shooting, because I think the film will bring you there.

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.

Elton John himself never seems pretentious but Bernie Taupin's lyrics often do - sometimes pretentious in a clever sort of way, but pretentious nonetheless. There is a conflict between Elton's and Bernie's personal styles, no doubt about it.

Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story.

Every violinist has a different style, so it's important to be able to recognise their styles. You don't have to like everyone's style but you have to know these styles.

My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.

When I think of all the Hamlets I've seen, there's been a load of different styles, some marvellous. You like the Hamlet you saw when you were the right age to think you could be Hamlet.

If you perceive someone to be stylish then even if they are shabbily dressed you would consider that as a new style statement.

If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

I don't know why I paint what I paint. I think it comes out - it's kind of my subconscious or something.

The comics are where all the crazy subconscious stuff comes out.

Once you share what you're communicating with your audience, then you can make more sense of it in a subconscious way.

When I read a script or I see a character, I don't necessarily see the arc of her, that by the end she is this person, she's different from she was in the beginning. I guess it's more a subconscious understanding of that arc.