Quotes About Interpretation

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

When I close my eyes and think of a writer, I don't imagine him or her as someone who is sitting above me on a pedestal, blindfolded, holding the scales of justice in one hand! No, I see sentences.

It's an imaginative thing we do; it's about immersing oneself in one's imagination. If you're a novelist, you do it with pen and paper. We do it with our bodies.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps.

No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.

Most people are oriented to words. When the public hears a melody, unless you put words to It, it takes longer to penetrate. It's always been like that, but I don't know why.

I could write about coal miners in Northern Pennsylvania, and people would ask if I was writing about my dad.

People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.

There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.

No diss to any of my homies, but I pay very close attention to what people say about me.

It's funny, in some of the interviews I've seen that were done for the film, some people say things like, 'Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.'

People say I'm a one-note actor, but the way I figure it, those other guys are just looking for that one right note.

Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that.

People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and try, and I just don't.

Lots of English people say exactly the opposite of what they mean.

I don't want to say I hate remixes, because I don't, but I hate what instantly comes to mind now when people say 'remixes.'

Many people say to me, particularly about my dance writing, 'It sounds just like you.' But it sounds just like me after I've made it sound like me.

Ninety-eight per cent of all human communication is non-verbal.

With 'Invisible,' I didn't want to create something that requires you to watch it more than once; I don't even expect people to watch it more than once per se. I just wanted you to have the experience and knowing that if you watch it a second time, it would be different because you would see different things.

In sales, it's not what you say; it's how they perceive what you say.

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

I did not fix any genre for 'AK.' We just write a story and audience will put it in a genre as they perceive it.

What we perceive things to be when they come out of our mouth is not what the listener perceives it to be. They think it differently. They're not your blood. They're not your mind. You get in an argument.