Quotes About Interpretation

At least you used to know 'there's the villain, there's the good guy', but today there are more shades of grey.

Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.

All that matters on the stage is good art.

I'm not a very good communicator, so maybe that's why I write about talking.

Good advice is like a proverb: the meaning depends on the interpretation.

It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum.

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.

I'm usually sort of ambiguous in terms of whether I'm playing a good person or a bad person. I can walk that line of funny but also dark, and I'm happy doing that.

I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they're working. The songs just don't become a part of the film. They're replaced.

As an actor, you think you have to go really far and deep and cry and yell to be good in a scene. Sometimes that's not the point.

Acting, music, painting... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very good actor at all.

There's no such thing as good voices. Because there's no such thing as bad voices. There are only good actors and bad actors.

You know, you find that these stories ... will turn one of us into the good guy and one of us into the bad guy. If you look at it closely or even not that closely ... it's ridiculous.

We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.

Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive.

A lot of religious texts make for good reading. That's why they hold up.

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.

It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody would know what I was doing.

If the point of good art is to be somewhat subtle then it's not going to catch everyone.

Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

We're never trying to manipulate and mess with... When you finish the movie, you hope you did a good job but you never know.

A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one.

I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.