Quotes About Interpretation

The most important thing as a filmmaker, the hardest journey you'll have, is to find your point of view.

History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of it.

To me, point of view is everything.

The most important thing is to have a point of view and have something to say. That is important if you are filmmaker or artist. That means you have to experience the world.

As an actor, you can't play a flashback; you can't play someone's memory. You just have to play each circumstance as if it was real and understand that person's point of view.

As a young actor, there's a lot of hubris. You come in with guns blazing, all kinds of ideas as to how you want to play a role, and you endeavour to convince people of your interpretation or your point of view.

Utopias and dystopias can exist side by side, even in the same moment. Which one you're in depends entirely on your point of view.

My job as an actor is to just tell the story as best I can from my character's point of view and let the audience decide.

Whatever the case, oftentimes, for a story to feel complete to me, I need more than one point of view.

If a work alienates a reader, should that be counted against it? I respect people that love 'Ulysses,' for example, but I'm on the other side of the argument. 'Ulysses' would be better if it seduced me. But I probably have the minority point of view.

As an actor, you can have your opinions, but our responsibility is telling the point of view of this one character.

If you make 'PKP' from the girl's point of view, it would have been the other way round. The boys would have been wrong for the girls. That wouldn't have been misogynistic.

I don't want to draw from my own experiences in life. I first like to become the character and then think from her point of view.

I'm just like a photographer or a director. Of course I have an opinion, but I don't think my opinion, or what I want to say... is so obvious 'cause that's not my job. My job is just to give a point of view, not more than that.

History is a point of view always.

My songs are self-explanatory... somebody pointed out to me that... my songs pretty much speak for themselves.

The human race is facing all kinds of problems, and all we are doing is pointing fingers and saying, 'Your interpretation of the problem is different from my interpretations of the problem.'

The only time we actually even think about our music is in interviews. We have to explain why we do what we do, even though it seems pointless to us to explain it. The rest of the time we just do what we do and don't worry about it.

I think if you're going to cover a song, you should definitely take it apart and put it back together as if you wrote it. I don't think you should sing it the same way that the artist sang it - that's kind of pointless.

People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another.

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

I want to look at this character from all points of view. I know I don't want to make them all good or all bad or all anything... the story itself often helps create the character.

So I wanted to explore all points of view of that, not just the girl's but his point of view as well. Only by directing it could I explore all the points of view.

I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in the middle, creating the effect... of a skipped beat. It seemed to me the mind reacted - first!... in dots, dashes, and exclamation points, then rationalized, drew up a brief, with periods.