Quotes About Interpretation

Oh God. She probably thinks we were off doing—you know—romantic type, um, things—

God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.

I'm always surprised when writers say they don't believe in a god or religion but they believe in creating a world on two hundred pages using symbols. We're all worshiping something.

Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it, God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.

There are as many versions of God as there are people in the world.

In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.

I just think the way (for instance) evangelicals talk about God or Jesus, as in "Jesus says" or "the Bible says" points up a lack of honesty.

There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject

The way I look at stories is often from far outside, like a god's point of view, and also very, very subjective.

For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms.

A lot of ideas don't translate very well into art. To say, "Oh my god, the grass is green ..." You're going to end up with a big green painting.

God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.

The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.

It is essential for the good of criticism that both the critic and the public face the fact that a review is not the voice of God.

God speaks repeatedly and in many different ways

You'll never see any two good actors approach a role in the same way.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.

The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.

Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors