Quotes About Interpretation

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

In my mind, the plays I was writing were extreme examples of art for art's sake. I didn't necessarily think that other people would love them, though I thought they probably would.

One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.

You can give me any of Shakespeare's plays and I'll tell you a parallel African folktale.

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.

For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me.

People come along and impose their own stuff on plays, and it shows.

It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.

Plays have been made of my comics.

And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.

If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less and less alien as it continues to live.

I'm one of those lazy actors; I like to take what the playwright wrote and work with that.

I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our eyes much better.

You always want to please your choreographer, director. Dancers are just that way.

I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.

I try not to read reviews. It's hard not to hear what the critics are saying, but as an actor, I try not to let it in and to just give the best performances I can. At the end of the day, if you're trying to please the critics, you're missing what's really important: being creative and having fun.

I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both.

I think 'Game Of Thrones' is incredibly true to the books. I think the fans will, hopefully, be very pleased with how true to the books we are.

But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth.

There are plenty of movies that you need to chew on a bit. Movies that you return to and see something different in the second time around.

Being a musician, people ask you a lot about what musicians inspire you, and there's plenty of musicians that I love and respect, but I think that I'm the most inspired by cinema.