Quotes About Interpretation

I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.

It's not where you take things from - it's where you take things to.

It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to.

but so far it had only been used by Hound, who'd thought it was a leash and dragged Batty around accordingly.

les moules — comment dit-on—?

What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet." —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet

He talked about her in a way that only the obsessed do. It was always a pressured monologue, and it was always the same. He had to relate every detail, interpreting and seeking meaning in her every utterance or action, like a fundamentalist minutely analyzing a biblical text.

The line between good art and bad never seemed as clear as the one between a pie and an empty oven.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

All my films hinge on the fantastic. I'm not a documentarian; a film is first and foremost a dream, and it's absurd to copy life in an attempt to produce an exact recreation of it. Transposition is more or less a reflex with me.

It's the honest point of view of an artist: You have to please. I'd like viewers to come away from my films unsure whether they've understood them. I want to leave them wondering.

Scripture consists of what has been heard, not what has been said.

Much blood has been spilled over words, and a great deal of it over the word 'God.' (125)

We still do not know what Yeshua really said. We know only what a number of hearers and witnesses have heard. Scripture consists of what has been heard, not what has been said.

The sky, a perfect empty canvas, offers clouds nonetheless. They shift and drift and beg interpretation... such is the nature of art.

We think miracles happen and prayers are answered only when it's something good; when it's in line with our hopes and desires which, in Human Children, are always fear-based. We don't acknowledge the same forces equally at work when the results are not in line with our hopes and desires. We're very selective in our perceptions. Good luck, bad luck, it's all the same; the ebb and flow of tides, it just gets interpreted differently.

She spoke with the air of the artist, playing out each nuance until it wasn't a nuance anymore.

As the writer, I know, but does my reader?

The right words communicate; the wrong words obfuscate.

I'm constantly running across comments from developers who don't seem to understand that the code already tells us how it works; we need the comments to tell us why it works. Code comments

You can explain things to people, but you can't understand things to people.

Movies are very subjective.

Secondly, is there "something" to be defined or translated? Derrida resisted the suggestion that there is a concept of deconstruction, simply present to the word, outside of the word's inscription in sentences and phrases determined by the undecidables. There's no such concept simply to pass over into other words, other languages.

Never attribute to malevolence that which can best be explained by incompetence."--Greenfield's First Law of Political Analysis.