Quotes About Interpretation

A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really.

A lot of my lyrics are approximate meaning without me knowing why they sound right.

I consider myself a lyrics guy.

I love having those lyrics that at first make you think it's about one thing, but it's really about something so much more.

I sometimes never really realize what lyrics are saying.

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

There's something magical about the idea that you can write something down and someone else can read it. I'm still mildly agog about that.

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

The main thing I would say is: Lady Loki in the comics is a very different character to our character, obviously.

People will write whatever they want and make up whatever they want anyway.

I believe in allowing an audience the opportunity to make up their own mind.

When you don't win, people have to make up a reason.

With 'Deep Space Nine,' I learned that when you get a script, you should give honor to the writer. On 'Larry Sanders,' even on '24,' you could make up stuff.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

I'm always making movies for my audiences, but I'm not trying to meet their expectations.

I think 'manager' is a stupid word.

If other managers are going to say things I can't legislate for that, that's their opinions.

Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.

Literature is a house with many mansions.

I know some people see it as this success when the book is finally made into a movie - that marks its success. I don't see it that way.

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.

f you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.

I hate dialect. It gets in the way. If there is a need for dialect, you can render it quite easily by reproducing the rythm of that form of speech. Then you don't need to bother with silly spellings

If you stood up and told the truth in the wrong way, it was not true any longer, though it might be as powerful as ever.