Quotes About Interpretation

I guess once you've been acting for a long time, you glean the great bits of good directors and the bad bits from other directors, and you know the way that you would like to be directed.

It's important to see how people see your work and how they feel about it. I know a lot of directors who are like, 'I never read reviews,' and I'm like, 'Yeah I can tell.'

The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

Not everyone agrees. If you disagree with me, I want you to tell me, and I'm going to come back and tell you why it's my opinion.

Once, Pina Bausch was about something, however disagreeable.

I don't like post-modernism. It's cynical, and takes no discipline - you just copy. It doesn't allow a film to be open to reality.

I think most of the times there is a disconnect between audience and filmmakers.

I want to discover more things about acting.

I think all literature should be read as comparative literature. And I think we should write out of what we know, but in the expectation that we can be changed at any moment by something we have yet to discover.

I discovered you can get closer to a character's thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.

One day, I discovered that a couple of people had written 'fanfic' - stories of their own based on my characters. Just the thought of people thinking that hard and deeply about something I've written is incredible.

I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.

I don't personally feel like I've dealt with any sort of discrimination or sexism. I'm not doubting that there might have been that going on and I just didn't read it that way.

I never like to sit and discuss my character, the other character, our relationship, or anything like that. I feel like if I did my job and I trust that the other person has done theirs, you just go on set, play around with it, chew the scene for a little bit; then we roll, and that's it.

Obviously I would never have agreed to be a part of something that would change the colour of my skin had I been playing a human. The bottom line is, I'm playing a cat. There is no more discussion. I am a cat that's white, let's not read into it.

I'm happy Lootera has sparked off a discussion.

Our discussions of the economy may sometimes ring in the ears of the public with more certainty than is appropriate.

Was 'Crucify Your Mind' dedicated to anybody? No, it was a generalization. 'A Most Disgusting Song' is like that, too.

Your idea of that dish has evolved, and if you're a cook, you can start thinking in different ways about it, maybe even a different way than I think about it.

I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.

Film is an art form. Dissecting and understanding it is a part of our own interest in humanity.

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.

If you go into something saying, 'I'm the bad guy,' you do yourself a disservice as an actor. It's always about trying to find the humanity in a character.