Quotes About Interpretation

When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

Balance is the enemy of art.

To me, dance and ballet are not so accessible.

I'm trying to create ballets that I would enjoy seeing.

Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didn't do them myself.

I always feel that the mark of a good ballet is that when you see it more than once, you get more out of it.

I think ballet is pretty open about what music is used, actually.

People sometimes say that bands sound like The Cars, but when I hear it I don't know if they do or not.

People bang on all the time about whether what I've done is the truth or not. Well, to me, history is just a series of elaborate fictions.

Yeah, I've always liked Barbara Crane's stuff.

Music affects people in a way that bare facts can't.

I think that Damien Hirst putting a shark in a bath of formaldehyde is nothing.

If I open a Batman book, and he doesn't look right, I can't do it. It has so much to do with the art.

It would be nice if all people who saw movies had some sort of basic understanding of what they're looking at, but I don't think you can assume that.

A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true.

In every show that you see, there's some stuff that's funny and some stuff that is not, or there might be stuff that you find funny and I don't. That would be true for any show, however funny or popular.

Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.

I'll just write with no music, no nothing and then try to apply it to music and sometimes, a beat will speak to me.

When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten.

All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.

What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words.

You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.

I think a great piece, whenever it was written, gets under our skin, makes us feel something. That's what Beethoven was trying to do.