Quotes About Interpretation

We make films because cinemas exhibit it, and they exhibit as we make films.

You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.

A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.

The landscapes were in my arms as I did it.

What I try to do is find a language for life.

Like books you will never have the chance to read, there are languages you do not know, and you're not going to get a chance to learn, so you'll never really know what was written, only the approximation.

We can only see as much and we can only go as far as our languages take us.

I had to know at least two languages.

I have a good ear for languages.

I have a really crazy cackle laugh, and I think sometimes people don't realize that they're not laughing at my jokes, they're actually just laughing because of my laugh.

People think they are not allowed to laugh at art, but they are. Damien Hirst laughs at himself. I know Jake and Dinos Chapman and they laugh all the time at what they do and at other artists.

It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written.

As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.

When someone new takes over a role, the company doesn't change anything from the script, but they do lay it all out there and let people take from it what they take from it.

Sometimes I hear a voice - sometimes it's the voice of someone I know. And sometimes that leads to a character, which leads to a story.

I came to realize that the law is about a book of rules, and he who learns them best, and is the most creative in interpreting them, goes furthest.

Acting is learnt, not taught.

The first time I read 'Leftovers,' I didn't get it at all.

Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.

I go by the content of the script and not the length of the role.

I always approach every role through a lens of comedy.

Human beings can only make sense of the world through the lens they were socialized to make sense of it through.

Each language is a different lens from through which you view the world. So, learn as much as you can!

Whatever my lens is, it's always going to be trying my best to see something through what I believe is going to be God's word, and not God's word in the essence of dogma or in the essence of religion, or to be right and to make other people wrong.