Quotes About Interpretation

Expectations are kind of lethal for art, I think.

I love the deadpan. It's such a strong go-to. It lets the audience make their own decisions about what you're thinking.

No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one wants to hear that it isn't for them. As soon as they read it, they want it to be theirs.

I'm good at utilising body parts as letters.

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

I'm more of an exaggerator than a liar.

You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes.

You take some creative license when you make a movie, and things can be a little bit different.

I keep reading between the lies.

With acting, it wouldn't be about money: it would be about taking my life experiences and using them to create art.

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

I don't use the word 'artists' lightly.

Every artist in the world likes his or her work to make people think.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited.

It's most difficult to score a comedy. Where are the limits? When does music become gimmicky or stupidly funny?

So I just play the character, I play the lines.

You go and you see a piece of art; you're looking at it outside of you. When you listen to a song, the singer's voice is being put together in your own head. The effort that you as the listener has is part of the artwork in a sense.

You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.

Sometimes, when you get into a record, it's like writing a book, and you get so far inside the story you can't tell anymore if it's gonna be good to an outside listener.

What is the point of narrating poetry when the listener can't appreciate and enjoy the meaning?

Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.

Movies are too literal.