Quotes About Interpretation

I believe that for the audience the best way to give the commentating is to avoid going into the deep, deep details.

One of my favorite parts of being an actress is being a detective.

The script determines the costumes. At least that is how I like to work.

I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know?

I've seen movies that are slavishly devoted to books but don't work because they haven't turned it into a movie: they've turned it into a dramatisation of the different scenes.

I'm not a guy who can sit there and look at a diagram of a play and understand it.

Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.

Dialect was my biggest fear. So, I spent a long time working with dialect coaches just trying to get American down. I think it's very important and very easy to misinterpret.

That's what art is about: to create dialogue. Everybody deserves to have their own opinion.

I think actors always find the dialogue doesn't quite fit, so you always have to play with it.

When I act, I hear it like music. In my head, I hear the dialogue like music.

I even knew some of the dialogue but it was definitely cool to look at. We always argue that the movies should be loyal but in this case I could argue that it might have been too loyal.

I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue.

There's nothing wrong with anybody from any other country having a perspective on the British royal family. It would be interesting. But I just doubt that they would get the dialogue right.

It was always the same thing - no script, dialogue at the last minute. Everyone always thought we just said anything we wanted. It's difficult to explain - some actors want to know why they have to do this and that. It was so simple and natural with Godard.

If I'm doing different accents, I feel like I'm acting. If I'm doing my own accent, I feel like I'm saying someone else's dialogue as myself.

I realized this is a character that I'm playing. This is 'The Crown's' version of Diana. I can bring a lot of what I want to do with this part.

'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.

I just let the emotion dictate what the arrangement is.

Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.

I think people think of auteurs as being a dictator shouting over everyone about his vision. That's not the way I think of auteurs or the way I work.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

Don't hate the word, playa; hate the dictionary.

I use the dictionary all the time when I'm reading or working on scripts.