Quotes About Interpretation

Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.

Well, some people assume when Russell is singing that it is coming from his feelings, but sometimes he's just playing a character.

Russian literature got me interested in what literature means.

One day, I was taken into a room with 25 animators, all working on Sadness. They asked me a lot of questions, and they got something of the way I move into the character.

I'll always err on the side of art for art's sake.

If we don't have the actors, or you get the sense that some of the other people involved in making the movie don't necessarily see the movie the way you see it - all those elements, for us, we like having those things feel like they're moving in the same direction.

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.

Without Merlin, there would be no Gandalf, so I see them as the same thing, one a continuation of the other.

There's only so many things to sing about, so what's going to make a song appeal to you more than someone else's is just a unique way of saying the same thing.

Nobody sang better than my mom. That's why I've never even thought of singing for singing sake. I've always thought of a song as an acting piece, as a way to say something.

This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.

Sometimes I say things that I think are obviously sarcastic and people take them quite literally.

I can be a very sarcastic person, and sometimes people take every word I say literally.

For me, 'Gulabo Sitabo' is a satire... I wanted to do satire and I think it's turned out exactly how I wanted it to be.

Films are made for audience's appreciation but films are also made for artistic satisfaction.

I'm not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work.

No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.

I do not see scales as abstract.

If there are 100 people, I don't anticipate all 100 liking my scenario - but I write it so at least one or two of them will love and get really into that particular story.

You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.

I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.

I really like directors who give you a certain amount of autonomy because I think a lot about my characters and I think a lot about scenes and choices.

Scholars will argue with each other about everything.