Quotes About Interpretation

You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable.

The problem is that perception is reality.

An actor's only perception is of their character, and they're looking at one piece. A writer is looking at the entire story. They're going to see things that the writer didn't see because they're only looking through their lens.

When it comes to the lyrics, I write about my own perception of things and use characters for that.

Perception's not reality.

My perception is that there is no distinction in music as many people perceive. The difference lies in the way you hear the music.

The beauty about history is that it's open to perception.

Your voice determines people's perception probably more than your style or your jokes.

Perception is reality. People take what they want to from things.

Life's all about perceptions.

So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.

Your body is not your own when you are acting in a film. It becomes your character's body. Everyone sees you like that and builds up perceptions of you that have nothing to do with you.

Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

In this fast-developing world, particularly in the fast-transforming China market, we really need to take this opportunity and offer a modern interpretation of Scandinavian design which fits people's demands perfectly.

You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of different angles. Johnny Cash with Rick Rubin illustrated that perfectly.

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.

To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's not just about being a fan, it's about how you perform your fandom. That's always been interesting to me.

I find all of my performances come down to mathematics in a sense - how do you approach the problem of this character? Sometimes I crack that problem, sometimes I don't.

I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.