Quotes About Interpretation

I have never felt a placard and a poem are in any way similar.

Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

I think everything has some politics to it. It's just whether or not it admits to it. Politics is weird. I don't even know what that means any more.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

A person hears only what they understand.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.

You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it

What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our INTERPRETATION of experiences.

Genuineness requires listening through both verbal and nonverbal channels.

Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.

But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

If negative meant positive we'd be heroes.

That doesn't matter. If it speaks to them and they get something positive from it, it's great.

I think it is optimistic and positive - it's quite contradictory in that sense - from the lyrics. Until you actually read them, maybe they can seem contradictory.

What I may intend for a story to communicate and what a story ends up communicating could be two different things. And it could be an even more positive thing.

No matter what you're going through, as long as you have some specific emotion, whether it's positive or negative, it is all stuff that you can use on stage.

I love when people write about something, I learn what I'm doing through the eyes of a good critic, positive or negative. It's still a learning experience.

Art is a house that tries to be haunted.

All seems infected that the infected spy as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

All that philosophers have done is interpret the world in different ways. It is our job to change it.