Quotes About Interpretation

I think in some ways, it can do a listener a disservice to explain a song. I think I'd rather leave a little room for people to put themselves in it.

When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.

It's hard to explain your emotions when you see a work of art.

I can explain my work to the cleaner or the president; it's all the same to me. I am very communist in this way.

My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

I want my music to do the explaining.

I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it.

When I worked with David LaChappelle, I was stimulated... He was explaining how he does things, how he works. I realized what an artist is, so I thought that's what dancers should experience.

It's hard to talk about acting because I don't think it's quite as explicit as a lot of people might think. And that's probably the best thing about it.

All art is exploitation.

You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.

With film, so much is in the director's hands. Once something is cut together - unless you're in the editing room - you don't really remember what the alternatives are. The exercise in theater is night after night, you are doing the same play, but you have another opportunity to explore.

Every time I get a role, or the opportunity to explore a role, I look at it, and I think, 'What is the story we're trying to tell here?'

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

Building a character - nothing gives me more high than the process of exploring someone else's life on screen.

I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

It's almost better most times to not talk in a scene. I think you can actually express a lot more without words.

I am so used to being able to express myself from being an actor. So when people don't understand me, I'm just completely lost.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

If I'm feeling something, I have a lot of different ways to express it, you know? I can write an article about it. I can write a screenplay about it. I can act in someone's thing.

Artists need to express.