Quotes About Interpretation

Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.

I think everything's fair in art and how you perceive a character.

You know, sometimes there's a difference between what is actually the truth and what you perceive to be the truth through your social conditioning.

Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.

I think that, with anything creative, you should have the freedom to experiment, and that experimentation means not feeling totally responsible for how other people perceive it.

Religion is a way to make order from chaos, and I think economics is not dissimilar. In religion and in economics, you're trying to figure out the way we perceive the world and move through it, and that's what I like to learn.

When people don't understand what they're watching, a lot of what they perceive has to do with who they themselves are.

That's the best way to work on a project: talk to the director. In the end, it's the director's idea of how they perceive the movie and how they perceive the characters.

I don't perceive a lot of the things that a lot of people perceive as negative as a negative - and the inverse, I don't think a lot of the things people think are positive are positive, necessarily.

Nothing would have shocked Proust more than to hear that his work was perceived as difficult or inaccessibly rarefied.

In general, fiction is divided into 'literary fiction' and 'commercial fiction.' Nobody can definitively say what separates one from the other, but that doesn't stop everybody (including me) from trying. Your book probably will be perceived as one or the other, and that will affect how it is read, packaged and marketed.

Writing is very much perceived as something distinct from performance. I don't see it like that.

Sometimes a break-up song is perceived as that because that's what the person who's hearing it needs.

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation.

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.

I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.

A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

Perception is not always reality.

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

Those of us who make movies play with perception and reality; those who watch our films are responsible for making sense of it.

The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not?

I think perception is important.