Quotes About Interpretation

I tried to decide each case based on the law and the Constitution.

I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.

When I get a role, I try to delve as deeply as possible into the character.

I'm not really going to defend anyone's lyrics.

Defenders see things way different than blockers.

I wish I could say that when I didn't agree with a director I defer to him, but I think sometimes I'm a little self-righteous.

There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.

Theater is about language, so characters have to define themselves through language for an audience.

If you can define what God is, I can tell you whether I believe in it.

I don't know enough about manliness to define it.

When you make a film, everyone wants to define it.

I came out of a lower-middle-class background. At that time, everyone used to define themselves: Stalinist, Maoist, whatever. I thought they meant 'miaowist'. Seriously! Something to do with cats.

Today, I defined 'sentimental' to myself as a feeling about the idea of a feeling.

Contemporary defenders of the Enlightenment shouldn't overgeneralize: the Enlightenment, however it is defined, is not an unalloyed good.

It is not the script that defines a film. It is the execution of the script that counts.

Everybody has a different definition of the good side.

I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.

If you want to look at a cheap shot, look at Mr. Koons's or Mr. Gober's art. By no definition is it art.

I think the definition of 'the greatest racecar driver' is different to everybody.

With time, I believe, a day would come when people have their own definitions of Jung Ho-yeon as an actor.

I think there are certain questions that get asked in comics over and over again, and people want definitive answers, but I feel like there shouldn't be definitive answers.

History does not produce definitive answers for all time. It is a process.

So a lot of our shows where even we think we've taken a very deliberate stand, liberals say, 'That's awesome, you took on the conservatives' same show and conservatives say 'That's awesome, you took on liberals.'

I deliberately never read about films before I see them.