Quotes About Interpretation

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

With acting, when you're reading a script, you're regurgitating someone else's words. There's a whole part of your brain that's off duty.

As an actor, I trust my ear.

I've always been able to get inside a song really easily, and if it's my song, I can make it seem honest.

I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them say what they mean.

Like all editors, I assume, I'm a reactor.

As an actor, you can go in, and you give your best performance, but if you hand that performance to ten different directors and ten different editors, you get ten different movies.

You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor.

A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.

I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.

If you go back to 'Louie Louie,' there's the whole element there, where you need to be able to appreciate what 'dumb' is in its profoundness.

There are some millennial artists that I totally get and understand, and I know what they're talking about. People who I've worked with and who I'd like to work with. But there's a whole element of artists that I can't explain what they're talking about.

A lot of the time you find that elements of a character are brought out by the actors playing them.

You don't necessarily have to write a song to make it your own. After all, Elvis never wrote a song in his life.

As I often lecture businesses, it is not the email you send which matters, but how people feel when they read it.

We all mythologize to some degree ourselves and probably embellish. I think some of that is the desire to tell stories.

An actor has to embody a role.

Any piece of art has the potential to emotionally touch you and nudge you.

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

If you can't empathize with other people, then you will never really be able to write well about them.

For me as an actor, you always sort of want to bring yourself to a character in some way. You want to find a way to approach something in a way that's real and interesting, and also so there's some empathy there.

Acting requires a great amount of empathy for real lived human experiences.

I try to leave things as open ended as possible, not too overladen with meaning.

Sometimes, actors in films will play the ending of the movie, or even the middle, and you know where it's going - as an audience member, you can read the actor.