Quotes About Interpretation

Still, one of the few good things about being dyslexic is that when I say I don't read reviews, I mean I don't read reviews.

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

A good story needs only a good storyteller.

Good and evil - I don't believe that there is hanging out there, anywhere, something called good and something called evil.

You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to good writing.

Primitive, naive drawing can also be good drawing but it's hard to pull off. I don't think most submitters realize that.

I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has to something move over that and somehow become personal to the director.

I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.

We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism.

When someone offers me a job or a project, I always ask myself, "What does it tell me about the world?" and "Have I seen it before?" Two good questions.

Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good?

If there was no other proof of the infinite patience of God, a very good one could be found in His toleration of the pictures that are painted of Him.

I'm not sure whether it's good fortune or bad, but I've died many times on screen.

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.

Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well and they can make it beautiful. You don't really know.

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

Well, evil to some is always good to others.

When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry.

Sometimes the government has to answer questions with ambiguous language.

Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government.

It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if these are universally relevant.