Quotes About Interpretation

You know, comics were created at the same time as the cinema. And the cinema very quickly became a major art. Cartooning didn't become a major art. There's a reason for that. People don't know how to deal with drawings.

I kind of hate over-explanation in comics.

You can sometimes break rules in comics that you can't necessarily break in cinema. It's fun to find something cool in a comic and then try and find a way to break the same rule in another medium.

What eventually you find in comics is the only thing unique you can bring to a character who's been around for 80 years is yourself.

Comics writing is for your artist. It's not for the general reader; it's for the artist. So I love writing scripts for artists.

You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever.

I don't want to be a commentator of my own work. If you've written the story, you've said what you want to say.

Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.

Common sense to one person might be something different to another.

There's always a way to say something that could seem really commonplace and make it special again.

For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.

When you have another actor as your boss, they understand how to communicate easier sometimes than just a writer.

All businessmen - how do they communicate? God knows. Sign language, probably.

In a reading, I communicate what I see, what I hear and what I feel. It's as simple as that.

If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

I need to make sure that I'm taking roles that I feel like I can communicate through.

My strength is to communicate with an audience and to know what jazz singing is capable of.

When I sing, I try to communicate certain emotions, and that's the voice that comes out.

As artists, our job is to communicate thoughts and tell stories.

That's the most important quality for any actor, for us: someone who can communicate what they're feeling without saying, 'This is how I feel... ' It's what's on their face.

Part of what I enjoy about writing classical music is communicating through the score and collaborating with such amazing musicians.

During 'Torches,' I was more concerned with communicating the spirit of the song than the actual lyrics.

Something people say about acting is that acting is listening. But I think that writing is listening, too. That you really have to listen to what are they saying and what they're communicating to you. And so, a lot of it is just getting stuff down.