Quotes About Interpretation

But you can't really know your audiences so well.

American audiences and European and Asian audiences are so different.

I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.

Am I really an author if I just put pictures in a book?

Authors of books are not given very much control over the films that are made from their books.

I wouldn't say that my songs are autobiographical.

I am not an autobiographical writer.

My books aren't autobiographical.

If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.

The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality.

People never read my books for the quality of the documentary value.

I've learned with Donald Trump - take him at his word.

I like double entendre because then the people who get it enjoy it, and the people who don't get it don't know about it.

Dr. Aziz is a very deep and meaty part, a gift part for any actor.

Drama is not hard for me. It just didn't seem hard.

I was taught at my drama school that it's not what you feel, it's what you make the audience feel.

I always find with dramas that the more that's left to the imagination of the audience, the better.

Every writer is going to end up drawing from their own experiences in one way or another.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

I once dreamed that the word 'eight' was actually 'oat'.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

When I first drew him I had eyes in there and it didn't look right.

In a way, I don't create anything; I just open myself to the character, and the character takes over. Of course, I'm aware of it, and I'm driving it, but I don't try to control it. If I try to control it, it goes wrong.