Quotes About Interpretation

A lot of my favourite books - I should say, not much happens in the books! It's much more about the points of view of the author more than anything else.

I learned to write from different points of view and not just something I would say.

I always think that's neat, when you can hear a story told from different points of view, different perspectives.

I make it a habit of never trying to judge what an audience might think, only because all points of view are too close, because we're doing it every day, I think that the actor's point of view is sometimes too close to what the material actually is.

In this new world where art is willfully misinterpreted to score points and to distract, simply doing the work of an artist has become a political act.

A book makes claims of literary art.

Clarity is so important for Shakespeare.

The choreography in films is completely different. I find it easier when I am asked to dance to classical music, but it's a different ball game altogether.

You can say a lot of things to someone while being pretty clear between the lines.

You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.

People like abstract art because it makes them feel clever.

'Once Upon A Time In America' is one of the cleverest films of all time, because you can get out of it whatever you want to get out of it.

Cliches are what make you understand something.

I don't believe in closed scripts; I think that they should be open.

People can misconstrue closeness for love.

My approach is simple. It is nothing other than what I am thinking at the time I make each piece of clothing, whether I think it is strong and beautiful. The result is something that other people decide.

With 'Clout Cobain,' when I made the song, I knew what I wanted to say. But I was gonna say it in a way where people could understand it.

Sometimes you play and you think you're doing one thing, and then you don't. The coaches are the ones who see it the best way.

The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.

To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy.

With code, what it means is what it does. It doesn't express, not really. It's a very bounded conversation. And writing is not bounded. That's what's hard about it.

Colin Blunstone did a cover of one of my songs, and the reason I liked it was he changed it completely from my version.

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

I think every actor would probably say that it's always a collaboration. And if you ask directors, they'll tell you that they expect the actors to bring something. They don't want to be thinking for everybody.