Quotes About Interpretation

When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting.

People want to make a distinction between what's commercial and what's art.

You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.

I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.

'Carol' is so distorted by point-of-view.

Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.

You're playing a character in a drama who happens to be based on someone who existed. It's never going to 'be' that person, but it's based on someone well-known, and you want to create enough of that person for it not to be a distraction.

As a district judge, I view my role quite differently than the role of legislators.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

As an actor, all you have is what you know and what you see in other people. The more you know, and the more you've experienced, the more you're able to communicate to other people.

If there's one thing that I know how to do, it's talk to actors. From what I have experienced working with so many different directors in so many different things, a lot of them don't really know how to talk to us.

A story is how we construct our experiences.

Art in the age of the digital image is completely different from experiencing art in physical form.

It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don't. It's hard to build something that's incompletely defined.

My affliction has been... I can make something or draw something or design something better than I can explain it.

To describe and explain my ideas is to lose them.

Things explain each other, not themselves.

I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.

The left brain is responsible for making order out of chaos, for making sense of things in the world that don't always add up. To do this, it often makes up stories, fantastic confabulations in some cases, just to be able to explain what we're experiencing.

You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it.

I need to be able to explain myself in context.

I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.

I tend to explain my songs.