Quotes About Interpretation

The really cool thing about when you're playing a comic book character is that no one knows what he sounds like.

I love how much people are drawn to my 'impersonations' of Trump because they aren't really impersonations at all. I'm not trying to be Trump so much as I'm trying to make Trump me. In doing them, I simply ask myself, 'How would I, Sarah Cooper, say these words?'

We live through life, but we live through art, too. And in art, as in life, nothing is generalized. No one thing is a copy of the next. Everything is individual.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.

You can't copyright a urinal. But you could probably copyright a sculpture of a urinal. And like Duchamp's famous work, code is both, at the same time.

I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.

The artist knows how to sing, not how to count.

I think it's counterproductive for actors to come to the set with well-thumbed copies of the book their film is adapted from.

Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress.

I get a lot of joy out of covering other people's songs, and, at my best, I think I bring something a little new to a lot of them.

Nobody considers a covers record an album.

As an actor, you think you know your craft, you know the conflicts in your character, but often you don't.

For me, that is the craft of acting: literally creating something from nothing.

Crawling into someone's skin is what acting is all about.

I don't think I've played a lot of crazy people.

You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.

Art - be it painting, sculpture, music - they are all creations, they are creative acts. I consider a film, with everything that is involved in it, an art.

I'm a creative consultant, whatever that means.

What drives the creative person is that we see it all.

I am a creative person and watching a movie is like writing a story. So when I see a movie, I also see the editing, the music, the camera angles, etc.

For every artist, experience is never complete until it has been reproduced in creative work.

I think that a lot of people just don't understand creativity.

Music is all about creativity.