Quotes About Interpretation

When you sit down to write a film, you direct it in your head. If you are writing a scene, you are watching the scene. And maybe it's different when you are writing a novel because you are thinking of it in terms of being read. But films are only consumed one way - through the eyes and the ears.

I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.

During my career I've enjoyed re-invigorating and contextualizing classic characters that are relatable to contemporary audiences.

I don't ever sing classically when I am singing a contemporary score - I kind of try to fit in whatever needs to happen.

I'm a bit of a traditionalist, but I kind of mangle things as I perform in a contemporary way.

I like contemporary, bare-boned writing. I don't like having the language that I barely understand get in the way of me interpreting it over to an audience. It's this barrier that I don't want to have to attack.

I'm interested in teasing out the contemporary issues in what I'm working on, however old the piece might be, whenever I'm working on it.

There's traditionally been a large disconnection in contemporary art between the audience and the artist. Generally, audiences are looking towards what they like, and I can tell you, that's the last thing on an artist's mind.

Musical composition, about which I know little, is a complicated art, and some contemporary music may be the equivalent of a complex abstract painting.

We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it.

Art is a continuum.

I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

You can't control how an audience responds to something. It's up to them.

I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial.

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

The voice has to be very clear at all times in order to convey the emotion.

Acting is about finding truth and finding the way to convey the truth.

When I am in the sound booth, I am trying to convey as much as I can through just my voice.

I love street and I love ballet and I love to convey what I can.

Some actors merely have to appear before the camera and they are able to convey exactly what the director wants.

I think that's how any actor would make their performance convincing: by bringing an element of themselves into the character.

Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art.

The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.

I just want to make cool art work that has some meaning.