Quotes About Interpretation

That's the great part about arts - someone taking your work and making it something else; it's becomes a true collaboration.

I tend to be collaborative, and I want to hear other people's ideas. Especially with actors, I want them to feel like they can breathe life into their characters.

Probably, subliminally, I think of the reader as a kind of collaborator. I don't want to say something for the reader that the reader could have said for himself.

Every art I do is a collage.

I remember thinking that 'Earthworms' wasn't really an 'album' to me, only because it felt like a weird collection of songs more than an actual project.

I do not feel happy when a collection is understood too well.

I make music in terms of collections.

The script is the coloring book that you're given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.

Color can do anything that black-and-white can.

Just because I have a sense of humor and use bright colors, people always say it's 'camp.' I'm just doing my thing. I think of it as art.

Colour does not make so much difference. Look at the Bach Chaconne: There is not one dynamic mark in the whole Bach Chaconne. Colours do not make so much difference.

I try to talk about things I know about. But my characters are more of a combination of people or how I imagine people would feel.

Basically, great directors know how to combine music with the scenes that they are working on.

Well, audiences will laugh at a lot of things that comedians won't.

I just try not to look at any role as a comedic role or a dramatic role. I just try to stay in the movie I'm in.

If I'm playing a bad guy, and I'm playing him evilly - I'm making him evil; I'm being evil because I want the audience to understand that he's bad - or if I have a line that's funny, I do it in a comedic way, that, to me, is a lie. It's dead when I watch it.

Good comedy doesn't have to be a comedy idea.

Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.

When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening.

A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately.

I feel like there are comic book artists who are comic book artists, and then there's comic book artists who are cartoonists.

You know it yourself; the comic books are one thing and the movies are another thing. You dont always keep it the same.

I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.

All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.