Quotes About Interpretation

It's very hard to dramatise something factual and not make it look overdone, but also not to make it look so under-dramatised that it's dull.

My job is to analyze conversations and discover why communications fail.

I never felt Lee Strasberg could act, and I fail to see how someone who can't act can teach acting.

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

Whatever it is Christ said doesn't get a fair shake. There's not much written, it was done 150 years later, and it was used to create an empire. So can we get rid of all that and just see what the guy said?

I really think everything is fair game.

The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them.

I think we can fairly conclude that writer-director Joss Whedon didn't make 'The Avengers' for me.

Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

Sentences are not as such either true or false.

If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.

Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all.

I write a lot about other people, like family and friends. I look at their lives and relationships and think, 'Well, if I was in your position, this is how I would see it.'

When you have a script, and you're discussing what it can be, and who going to play what role, that's a kind of like a fantasy football game. You can imagine these different dream teams interpreting these characters that only exist in your head.

I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.

I can't tear up a poem and be a sound bite for you. Why is that so hard for anyone to understand?

For the chorus of 'Secrets,' we used The Romantics' 'Talking in Your Sleep' and 'Pale Shelter' by Tears for Fears. It's like hip-hop: just grab it.

Even if somebody wanted to tell me what one of my songs meant to him or her, I can't do it - I would be probably put to tears every time.

My friend... used to tease me about a tattoo I had right here, but it was so big, and what he was teasing me about - he said it looked like a flying monkey. It's supposed to have been a grim reaper holding a ball. But it did look like a monkey.

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content.

It's the emotion of it that hits me, more than anything technical.

Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.