Quotes About Interpretation

I have surreal dreams, so much so that I can never make head nor tail of them.

I'm not there to tailor the role to me: I'm there to tailor me to the role. That guarantees me something, a precious thing, which is creativity. I'm guaranteed that I will have a creative experience, because I will go to it, not demand that it comes to me.

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.

All of us show bias when it comes to what information we take in. We typically focus on anything that agrees with the outcome we want.

Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.

You have so much freedom as an actor in your character's choices, and I really learned to take advantage of that.

I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them.

I really think that I don't mind people sleeping during my films, because I know that some very good films might prepare you for sleeping or falling asleep or snoozing. It's not to be taken badly at all. This is something I really mean.

I'm not that taken with Freudian perspectives. They seem to be overcomplicated.

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

I sometimes think that so much of our life takes place inside our heads - in memory or imagination or interpretation or speculation - that if I really want to change my life, I might best begin by changing my mind.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Never forget that it sometimes takes a foreigner's eye to capture Britain most clearly.

As long as they're making beloved books into movies, people are going to be like, 'That's not my mental image of them.' It takes that moment for it to click and become their mental image.

There is no such thing as playing someone else's character. Every actor takes a character and makes it his/her own while enacting it on screen.

Objectifying is kind of a funny thing. Art is objectification, all art, because you're taking someone and making them into an object. But people can also talk back more to you when you're sketching them. They can look at you and say, 'Oh man, you got me wrong.'

I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see it.

No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.

A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.

The search for inventive ways of telling the tale of Christ's birth has been going on a long time; in a way, difference was there from the start with Luke and Matthew.

To me, the puzzle of Ronald Reagan is how a comparatively ordinary man, someone with not extraordinary talent, accomplished such extraordinary results. At the age of 50, no one expected that this was going to be the guy who would become, at least in my interpretation, one of the two most important presidents of the 20th century.

The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear.

An actor can be as talented as another, but if he doesn't stick to what the director's intentions are, it all falls down. I adore working with actors.

I think writers from both East and West have long been fascinated by the ancient tales and the opportunity to reinterpret them.