Quotes About Interpretation

I find in music there's a space and a language I can use to express things in ways I can't describe conversationally.

I felt like when you're an actor, you don't get to fully creatively express yourself - most of the time, it's not your own writing or direction.

My belief is that nothing that can be expressed by mathematics cannot be expressed by careful use of literary words.

There are some aspects of the diagram that I wish I had expressed a little more clearly.

I like music that expresses what I think.

I don't think Beethoven expresses religious truth. He expresses a human truth.

Art does not exist for itself; it is but an avenue through and by which humanity expresses itself.

I generally try to think of what it is I want to express and then find a way of expressing it.

Music is about expressing, not impressing.

Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.

Giving the voice and expressions to a character is giving it a soul.

I never really think of acting and directing as being separate; they are just different expressions of the same thing.

I am more expressive when I dance.

Sometimes one must make extended conclusions from limited data.

It is the director's vision, and as actors, we are just extensions of that.

To some extent, I draw on what I see around me; in other places, I imagine what I write.

With comedic actors, you can write one joke or two jokes, sample dialogue, and they have the capacity to extrapolate.

When I analyse the music, I can get really extreme.

You can take that 'I'm an artiste' stuff to the wrong extreme, too.

I like dramatic ballets, particularly if they're ballets in which I have a chance to go from one extreme of style or characterization to another.