Quotes About Interpretation

Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them.

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.

Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

As our dreams make evident, the psyche's own language is that of image, and not idea.

The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.

Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams.

...one person's dreams can become another's baggage.

Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it.

I learned how to communicate and articulate myself from ballet. It's just insane to me, when they don't think of that as a part of our education.

To suggest is to create; to describe is to destroy.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

The evolution of art is not only driven by artists, but by a conversation between the artists and the audience.

The art of reading physical tells isn't an exact science.

I make a film - and once I've made it, everyone comes along and says 'Ah! This is a film that's political, or social', or whatever. But I'm not telling the story that they see. I made a film, told a story, but I wasn't thinking about exactly what it all meant.

But sometimes that title 'jazz' can vex people who think they know exactly what jazz always is and will be.

There are beautiful examples of art done by chimpanzees in human care.

Whenever I approach any character, I try to find examples to draw upon.

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

One of the other things that I love about Miyazaki's films, is that when he sets a film in Europe, it's not a documentary - it doesn't really look like Europe, but it's something he internalises, synthesises and weaves into his work. I love seeing that cross-cultural exchange.

I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.