Quotes About Interpretation

It's like, if you have a story that's already great, then the thing that we can shift is how we're telling that story, how we're presenting it to the world.

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.

Historians sometimes view presidents very differently from the way the public did at the time. Sometimes they don't.

You give a press conference, and they'll pick one word, they'll pick two words. The media is still out to write what they want to write.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.

Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.

Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality.

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.

When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.

I don't pretend to be Joy Division or New Order. What I do is very straight forward: it's an interpretation and a celebration of the music, with different people. Everyone looks at it and knows exactly what I'm doing.

I don't hate people who colour-blind cast, but I hate people who colour-blind cast and pretend that they're not, who pretend that these bodies on stage don't actually carry specific meaning.

I try to get into a headspace where I pretend like this is the first time Im ever hearing this song, and I get into that and I just try to discover it. I found that if I really put my head in that space then I can get into it. I can discover it all over again.

The most important thing is to allow gaps and openings for people to make up their own minds - I don't want my film to be pretending to have one important truth to tell anyone.

There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong.

Borrowing something from one art form and relocating it in another always has a whiff of pretension about it, like in books if, instead of 'Chapter One,' you have 'First Movement.'

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

I think I am a pretty good at understanding each character of each person I meet.

I have always wanted to tell stories. Even as a classical dancer, I revel in telling stories through my dance.