Quotes About Interpretation

Isn't composing music akin to film direction?

You know, the character of Isabelle in 'Love Crime' is the only character I feel the furthest from. I have nothing to share with her, so it was really difficult. Being an actor of composition is something, but you always base yourself on something you know about.

If your work doesn't speak to people, it's beyond comprehension and risible, but if people engage with it, you become tarred with the brush of populism.

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

Since 'concepts' are closely bound up with language, concept art is a kind of art of which the material is language.

Food can be a material, and you can use it as a way to project concepts.

I love to choose the right actors. It's kind of a pleasure to work with them and watch them imbue your concepts that you write.

I am not really interested in clothing as a conceptual art form.

Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.

I love conceptual art and artistic expression.

I think one thing that's always a concern to me is you see a role, and you're not seeing the character; you're seeing so-and-so do it. Then I'm taken out of the story considerably, personally.

After watching a movie, you can't conclude that I am the same person in real life too.

Condemning art as manipulative is a non sequitur, of course. All art is manipulative.

This is the problem I have: I write a play and I give it to a director and they say, 'I'll do it one condition: if you play the role.'

Sometimes I prefer when I can hear other people conduct my music so I can sit out and actually hear it. When you are in the middle of it, sometimes it's a little bit hard to hear and get the whole effect.

Composers are not all good conductors.

I've always been accused of moving around too much when I play concertos. Sometimes, conductors ask me which of us is leading.

You have to show the character is confused or scared or happy through your voice instead of with your face and body.

When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.

I need an audience to look at what I've done so I can understand it, so I can step back and watch them respond and figure out what they're understanding about what I'm trying to do and what they're confused about.

It's funny when you know you're playing two characters and you're aware of how you have to play each one into your performance of the other. You're constantly at the back of your mind thinking and it all gets a bit confusing.

I've had this problem my whole life where I feel like I'm laughing all the time, and I feel like I understand what makes me laugh. But other people don't see it. It's very confusing.

Acting is a form of confusion.

To write what is not dead on the page, one has to be open to all kinds of disturbances and challenges and confusion.