Quotes About Interpretation

When you start thinking as far as what's a good photo, unfortunately everything starts looking like a good photo.

I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.

For the most part, however, Lady in the Water comes across as a movie that's too bad to be good, and not bad enough to be so bad that it's good.

My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.

As an actor, you are in a unique position because you're not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.

What's good and bad, sweet spirit, are in the eye of the beholder.

But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling.

Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.

All good art is abstract.

Me and music are not good friends, so I do my best to augment the music part [of my films] and come up with something worth watching.

I don't think good films have messages.

If it's good art, it's good.

The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language.

I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.

In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.

There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader.

There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.

Lyrics need to be good, but they don't need to be obvious right away.

I do think it's a very good way to describe what a great actor does. You're both acknowledging the authority of the director and the necessity of the actor to push back and find their own voice.

It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.

A trap screenwriters can fall into is making scripts that are good reads, which doesn't necessarily mean it will make a good film.

The good thing about movies is that they're subjective. You can connect to different themes depending on your own perspective.

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

All bad art is the result of good intentions.