Quotes About Interpretation

I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.

It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.

Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.

Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.

It's an ear job, not an eye job.

'Exculpatory' is in the eye of the beholder.

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder for real.

I often shoot with scissors in my eyes.

I need to distort not just leather and fabric, but also words. It's a disorder I have.

If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see.

A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.

There's always so much more that can be conveyed on screen visually in the expressions of people's faces, in their bodies, in their body language. And also with sound design, with music.

I think I just have one of those faces that can look like lots of different people.

Someone told me I had funny facial expressions. I don't know whether I take that as a compliment or not, but.

To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation.

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

My approach to deciding cases is I look at the law, I look at the facts, and I do my best to apply the law to the facts and make a decision based on the law and the facts.

I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.

Facts are often complicated.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

Facts are not interesting to me.

Facts and particulars annoy me.