Quotes About Interpretation

I love fairy tales because I think that behind fairy tales, there is always a meaning.

I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

The Bible... provides no guide to reading the Bible. In fact, it is full of such inconsistencies, contradictions, lacunae, obscurities, baffling tales, and poetic imagery that to quote it at all is to select from conflicting alternative passages. Every quotation is therefore necessarily an interpretation.

Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc.

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

I don't like to talk about my work. People should see my work and form their opinion based on that, not because of something I said.

When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.

All of the coding and hacking stuff that we do and I talk about, I always have them explain what it means so I know what I'm saying.

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

All painting, beginning with Impressionism, is antiscientific, even Seurat. I was interested in introducing the precise and exact aspect of science, which hadn't often been done, or at least hadn't been talked about very much.

I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.

There's so much crap talked about acting.

Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.

One of the annoying things when you're in a movie is that gets talked about is everyone projects meaning onto everyone's intentions.

'Rigoletto' has long been one of my favorite operas, and it was on my short list way back when I first talked to Peter Gelb. I started thinking about what I could bring to this masterpiece, which has been seen all over the world for so many years.

When I made '101 Reykjavik,' people talked about 'Almodovar on ice.' When I made 'The Sea,' people referenced Bergman.

I listen to music very intensely as well: When I listen to an artist I really love, I feel like I know them. I feel like I understand what they're thinking about, even though I've never met them or talked to them.

With the advent of cell phones, especially with the very small microphone that attach to the cell phone itself, it's getting harder and harder I find, to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone.

One person's disaster is another person's talking point.

I think the point of art is to be controversial in a lot of ways. It's to cause conversations, and it's to get people excited about and talking about the things that the films are about.

The drawing is already partly there - it's in the paper. And the paper is talking before you do.