Quotes About Interpretation

Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go 'LOL' in America.

People need to realize that even the greatest jazz musicians, when they listen to jazz, they're not like, analyzing it and deconstructing it - they're enjoying it. It's like listening to any other style of music. It's saying something to you, and you kind of just absorb it.

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.

I get to enter into the world the director has created: to live these different lives on top of my own life.

I think that there's a difference between being an entertainer and being an artist.

I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.

The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it elsewhere entirely.

The music becomes something that is its own entity.

The people who are entrusted with interpreting the law and upholding justice are tasked with an enormous duty.

An accent in a way can be an entry into a character.

I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.

When I did 'Hand Cannot Erase,' I didn't have a specific singer in mind.

Eric Cantona is a giggler.

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

In writing, something is always left out: it can't be articulated in the space of an essay.

I wouldn't be making films if I just wanted to express some specific ideas; then I would be writing essays or something.

We always start with the music even though people assume that the lyrics are the essence.

No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.

I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.

Artists are like everybody else.

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That´s the problem with the truth. Sometimes the truth is ambiguous, or really bad cliche.

Clinging to science was, when you got right down to it, just a god of a different flavor.

Most looked happy. I thought. Hard to tell, actually. What can you tell from a face?