Quotes About Interpretation

I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.

For years, I've been interviewed, and they write what they thought I thought or what they thought I said. Sometimes it's accurate, and often it isn't.

I didn't want to come across as pricey.

There is no right in acting.

Every director should take an acting class.

I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.

The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

I guess I've never really done a straight adaptation. It's been more like 'in the spirit of,' you know?

My adaptations are just as complicated as an original.

A lot of my favorite books have been adapted horribly.

I've adapted my own work a couple of times, and I've also given my novels to other people to adapt, and I do find that quite difficult.

I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things.

I believe in giving actors the freedom to express themselves, and adding more to whatever is written.

When you write as an artist, you just tell a story and people say it addresses issues.

I admit I do develop characters from little parts of things I've seen others do.

I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people.

You can make what you want. People care about what the artist has to say, what the sound is, and how it affects them.

From my experience, I can affirm that I don't really know how the women see the world like, but it seems to be quite different from how men do.

I don't agree with the idea that my characters are unlikeable.

For me, the aim of making any film like this, any film about an artist, would be to send you back to the art.

I don't like allegory.

Everything for me becomes allegory.

I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.

When I work on someone else's record, I'm happy to alter the way I approach it, if I happen to like who they are and I'm interested in their music. But I know it's their record.