Quotes About Interpretation

Language cares.

All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.

Advice is always awesome because it never makes any sense when you compare it all together. It always contradicts other advice. I love advice.

We are not going to compare one player to another but my way of playing is a lot more Lampard than Busquets.

For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.

No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well.

Don't go around asking the question, 'Is this character likeable?' and expect that to be compatible with serious literary endeavours. That's not what it's about.

The question of likability is a bit of a puzzler for me. You know, I don't write people with likability in mind. It's more whether or not I find them compelling.

There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it.

You don't know reality until someone makes a fiction of it. Reality needs the completion of fiction.

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.

The audience basically likes complex characters, and bringing out the complexities is the actor's job. The audience doesn't have the script, the actor does.

I love that denim can be as simple or as complicated as you want it to be. Anything goes.

You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.

For me it's a compliment, playing baddie characters. I take it as a compliment.

I take the fact that people cast me more in negative roles as a compliment.

I'm not an architectural composer.

'Neverwhere,' by Benjamin Millepied, is set to his favorite composer, Nico Muhly.

What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about.

The thing I don't want to do as a film composer is reiterate. I prefer to subtextualize or to underline rather than to say, 'This is what you should be feeling.'

It should be a singer's quality to know what a composer wants and sing accordingly.

As improvisers, we're acting as composers in front of people.

It's really been enlightening for me to work with composers because I used to think that everything in the music was exactly what the composer meant. Well, it's what the composer meant in that moment when they wrote it.

One of the major aspects of film composing is that it's not so much a musical thing as it is communicating your ideas with the director, who often does not come from a musical background.