Quotes About Interpretation

As an actor you have to deliver what the director wants.

When the director narrates the story, I try to understand how he wants me to do my role and I try to deliver that.

You should be able to deliver what the artist you're working with wants.

Dreams, I would say, are probably the most prevalent way a loved one will try to deliver a message.

There are various ways of delivering some kind of truth, so I try to find the style or the way that I find more effective.

Writers sometimes write things for me and I like to see what they write because I want to see what their take on my delivery is or what they think that I can do with something. So I kind of leave that to them.

I'm real particular about delivery. You can write the illest rhymes in the world, but can you deliver it right?

The writing I do makes great demands on translators.

I will do a dance number only if I'm convinced about how the director would present me. I'd do something only if the script demands.

I am a director's actress in general - I depend a lot on them.

I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.

Being an actor, we're so dependent on the writers.

I feel like, as an industry, we've gotten too dependent on source material originated in other mediums.

India lends itself well to fictionalization, but ultimately, it all depends on the writer's imagination.

Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.

What people don't understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.

I did not want to depict Al Gashey as evil. I wanted him to come across as someone who did what he did for reasons that were compelling. Whether or not we agree with him is a different matter.

I try not to write for actors because A, they're not the character, and B, it's really depressing when you don't get them.

Sometimes if something is entertaining and amusing, people tend to think that it doesn't have the depth of something that's dramatic. I don't think that's true.

A lot of songs are derivative of each other.

If I have a goal, then it is to escape from this literalism. I'll never achieve it; in the same way that I'll never manage to describe what really dwells within my character, although I keep on trying.

The critic should describe, and not prescribe.

My view, as one who taught it, is that the whole purpose of a literary education should be to tell people that these things exist. I don't think any teacher should try to 'teach an author,' but rather simply describe what the author has written. And this is what I tried to do.

I think it's really hard to describe music without alienating somebody.