Quotes About Interpretation

Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.

Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.

The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope. This is not to say that he is unconcerned with the truth.

Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.

I hope my films will never completely be without the ability to mark anybody.

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

I think that's all you can hope for as an actor when you read a script; that after the first thirty pages it has some meaning to it.

You narrow hope when you define it.

As a writer, I don't think it's my responsibility to make a point. I just write and hope there's someone who'll like it.

If I was playing Carrie, I might have done differently but I felt like as my character. I mean, I'm definitely bringing myself to the role but I wanted to pay homage. I hope I did. We'll see.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

I very much hope that when my wife reads my writings so she reads it as if she is a character and not the real one. Sometimes she takes it too personally.

As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.

A unique human trait is that we try to find meaning in the things that happen to us.

Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture.

The artist enriches the soul of humanity. The artist delights people with a thousand different shades of feeling.

Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.

Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.

My cat speaks sign language with her tail.

I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.

I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.

A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.