Quotes About Interpretation

You are leaving me messages, but I haven't gotten the message yet.

The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speaker hears some of the sound from the inside.

I think they would like the songs better if I left out the names, or changed the pronouns.

The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speakers hears some of the sound from the inside.

When nothing else is left, art will become the truth of the time.

True or not, every story has something it wants you to remember. True or not, every story has something it wants you to believe.

The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speaker hears some of the sound from the inside.

Reading is not life. Reading is creating life in your head.

We listen to songs to figure them out, to unravel the mystery of the words and the tune.

We are writing ourselves, writing each other. I am words, and there you are to read them.

Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once.

The sound of the words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speaker hears some of the sound from the inside

In wondered in avenging was being used as an adjective or a verb.

I don't think meaning is something that can be explained. You have to understand it on your own. It's like when you're starting to read...it's that leap, that understanding, that leads to meaning.

That's what makes it a good photograph. You think you know what's going on in her head. but the truth? No matter how good a photograph is, you can never tell what's going on in the person's mind. There's no way to get from here to there.

Se podría decir que escribí toda una novela sólo para cambiar el final de una canción.

Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.

O som das palavras quando são ditas é sempre diferente do som que fazem ao serem ouvidas, porque o falante ouve parte do som do lado de dentro.

It's just extraordinary to me that the story I write in relative isolation can then connect with so many people, and that the meaning I put into it somehow translates into meaning for a reader. I don't think you can ever expect that.

It doesn't do any good to say, 'This is what it means.' When you are spoon fed a film, people instantly know what it is. I like films that leave room to dream.

When you finish anything, people want you to then talk about it. And I think it's almost like a crime. A film or a painting – each thing is its own sort of language and it's not right to try to say the same thing in words. The words are not there. The language of film, cinema, is the language it was put into, and the English language – it's not going to translate. It's going to lose.

It's better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you'll be too afraid to let things keep happening.

It would be great if the entire film came all at once. But it comes, for me, in fragments... In Blue Velvet, it was red lips, green lawns, and the song—Bobby Vinton's version of 'Blue Velvet.' The next thing was an ear lying in a field. And that was it.

Actors are so filled with wonder and imagination and they get it so quick, no matter how strange something is. They get it, and their talent is to make it real from a deep place. When that happens it's really, really beautiful.