Quotes About Interpretation

I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.

Every time I read a script, I see the movie in my head, and I try to see the best movie in my head because everybody interprets the movie differently.

I can't speak for boys because I'm not one! But I just imagine they think differently.

Everyone will always have ideas about how to make your work better. Everyone has advice about how to end your play differently. Start it differently. And it's not about right or wrong. At the end of the day, it's your baby, and you know what's best.

I feel that when it comes to acting, Shahid and I approach roles differently.

It's a very difficult thing to adapt a piece of existing material into film.

I have a very difficult time describing my music.

By the nature of cinema and how it literalizes what we envision, movies can have difficulty replicating that connection we make with a classic book.

There's no set rule, but when you look at the script, you start thinking about this person and how to create this human being on screen. You dig deeper into a script.

I think my voice isn't that easy to digest.

I've never been very good at creating absolute music, which has no non-musical dimension to it. I think that is why filmmakers gravitated toward my work.

My characters are based on people I know, but not in a direct way.

I don't direct the plays of others.

My experience has been that actors always want to be directed.

It is always a pleasure to be directed by an actor because they know the scene from the actor's perspective, too. That's an advantage.

The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

I do like directing other people's material.

The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.

Directing talent is very nebulous. You know, it's not in front of you like an actor's performance.

I have always believed that directing a film is like telling a story. You have to tell it well so that it is appreciated.

I think like an actor when I'm acting, and I think like a director when I'm directing.

Interestingly enough, there is a really different dynamic when you're directing something that somebody else has written compared to when you're directing something that you've written. And there's a good and a bad side to it. I think the bad side is that you never feel the same level of connection to the material - you just don't.

I enjoy editing when I'm directing, but when someone else is directing, that's their film to cut.