Quotes About Interpretation

Fan fictions are an alternate universe.

You have to make decisions - you know what you think. That doesn't mean the audience are aware of your decisions or what you think - the lines you're saying may have ambiguity.

I'm really great at making terrible analogies.

Anything can be interesting as long as you access it from the right angle.

You can joke about anything. It just depends on your angle and the way you go about it.

I do figure every angle of a guy I'm acting - but not consciously 'til afterward.

Big stories have lots of angles, and you have to decide what part of that story you want to address.

I think animation can tell more than live action.

But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.

Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

I feel that too much singing annoys people.

I'm not answering questions with my songs.

I know 'Lost' used to drive people mad trying to anticipate what was happening or what something meant.

There's so much anxiety about being understood - and being understood through what you wear.

I was not a great reader. I don't know how to put it any other way.

I am not trying to speak for anyone else, never mind an entire generation. I don't even know what that means.

Anytime people see an emotion that is not extremely emotional, they call it 'deadpan.'

The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere.

I find it really appalling when people talk about comedy.

You make a film and you don't know who it's going to appeal to.

I just let the character speak to me and things appear.

What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script.

What language are you talking in now? It appears to be bollocks.

When a story is told really well and is real, even if it's not about their own lives, people can apply it to themselves.