Quotes About Interpretation

Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.

It doesn't seem Shakespeare works if you turn him into a religion.

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all.

Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so.

I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.

I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.

Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose.

One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.

I hear Shakespeare, sometimes, the way other people might hear God or Marx or something. But he's so different from that.

Shakespeare has been adapted by Akira Kurosawa. 'Dangerous Liaisons' has been adapted into a Chinese movie. 'Blood Simple', the Coen brothers movie, was adapted by Zhang Yimou.

Anyone can play anyone in Shakespeare. I don't think there are limits.

You can do a lot to shape the feeling of a song by the way you record it.

I'm good at shapes. If I'm not close, even if it's big, I can't read it.

To be honest , I looked at 'The Shining' as just doing another movie.

For most of your career, what you're trying to do is to step into other people's shoes.

Short stories can make for really good adaptations.

When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film.

I don't really know what to say about Izzy. It's like you could have a conversation and think it's one way, and the next day, it's another way. And I'm not trying to take any shots at Izzy. It's just his thing is kind of his thing, whatever that is.

This is really showing me what certain movies mean to people.

Nothing really prevented me from showing Catman as bi, but it's how I thought of him.

Of course everyone says they hate baby talk, but mine was not annoying.

I think that Bach has a very nice sound on the lute. But I find that what I want to do with Bach is best revealed on the guitar.

Some movies work really well with music from Bach or Mahler that existed long before the film, so music has its own autonomy.

There's a lot of people I take stuff from, and it's mostly bad guys in movies.