Quotes About Interpretation

The fact is that creativity is everywhere. It's just about the way that you look at things.

You are not an active creator of the film.

The criteria for writing mythological books are different. Because the results are known, the end is known. Somebody has created that limit and you have to play within that limit.

I'm not a critic, I'm not there to tell people what they should think about something - I just want to kind of enthuse about stuff to let people make their own mind up about it.

Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

What I am best at is reading a book and then writing a critical essay.

Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.

I'm an artist, and I like art that gets people talking, good or bad. Criticism is good, too.

As a director, you're open to any kind of criticism.

Once people write criticism about something - and even in 1967 I was far from alone - they're assuming it's art, and art is supposed to last.

If people aren't creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize.

Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.

I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing.

I learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies.

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

As an actor, you've got to have faith in the director's vision, that the director has a vision for this that is greater than the critics say.

I don't really care very much if I don't think that the critics really understand music.

Critics, how I would love if you could clear the word 'sentimental' from your minds.

Critics always get the lyrics wrong in reviews, which is amusing - especially when they use them against you.

I don't understand it when people get cross about how one of their works was adapted and say, 'Oh, they ruined it!' Well, the book is still there.

I don't like the idea of 'classical crossover,' even if sometimes I see this category given to what I'm doing.

You should read a crowd like you read a magazine.