Quotes About Interpretation

Why an artist loves what they do is often so hard to describe.

I'd like to think that most of what I do is self-evident if you're listening to it or seeing it. But I don't mind the fact that it's hard to describe.

Sometimes my lyrics may describe a situation that happened to a friend. Other times, I create a story from the ground up.

The American writer has his hands full, trying to understand and then describe and then make credible much of American reality.

It's always hard to talk about music and describe a song.

People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books that lend themselves to that sort of description. My books are more a kind of breaking-down.

Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

If you want to take writing on, you should pay writing the respect it deserves, which is to say, reading it.

Designer' is meant to mean whatever it means.

When a designer creates, he looks at the world around him.

When I do read something about a designer it doesn't alter my thoughts about their collection when I see it in person.

I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.

Usually, as designers, you try to create meaning.

I have made things for Calvin Klein and other designers, and it's interesting to see the way each person approaches it.

Designers become translators for me. That's why I've gone to people like Gareth Pugh and Viktor and Rolf - they are speaking a nuanced language. Fashion says a lot for me.

Some of my best friends are architects. And they definitely do have ears. But I think sometimes they don't use them when they're designing buildings.

When you have the blue screen, you've got another set of eyes, eight months down the track, designing what you should have been designing on stage with the actor.

I wanted to do '2001' from Hal's perspective. What it finally ended up being was 'Final Destination' in space.

I have to see a definitive cut of the film before I even start thinking about the music, I tell the director what my feelings are and what I would like to do. He accepts what I say or discusses it or destroys it. Eventually, we have to find a compromise.

Humans can really reveal themselves through what they choose to see as the most important or meaningful detail in an image.

Once you write a book, you hand it over to the readers, and it's their book then. They're so involved. They ask questions about details that I haven't even thought about.

I've always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details.

When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.

The beauty of performance for me is finding details with which to betray character.