Quotes About Interpretation

There is a fundamental syntactical distinction between saying "we question the Bible" and "the Bible questions us.

There are many examples of great songs that become more famous when they are covered.

Over the years, the kind of fan mail I've gotten from men has always been different from what I get from women.

When you sit players in front of doctors and surgeons, they use big, fancy words, and sometimes players get lost. It's hard to digest. But when you've been there and you can break it down into 'football language,' they can understand it better.

In terms of animation, animators are actors as well. They are fantastic actors. They have to draw from how they feel emotionally about the beat of a scene that they're working on. They work collaboratively.

Most people don't see the edginess in my work. They think it's all fantasy and whimsy.

In fantasy, you have licence to pick whatever you like out of history and fantasy, and you don't have to be accurate.

Especially, I think, living in any fantasy or science fiction world means really understanding what you're seeing and reading really densely on a level that a lot of people don't bother to read.

I know people say plays are only an evening's entertainment. But you can make it mean a lot to the audience, even a farce or comedy.

Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.

There's something fascinating about watching artists draw.

It's fascinating to see actors who do voiceovers every day.

I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

I really don't want to go to work every day convincing myself of what I'm saying. I want the material to make me a better actor; then I try to return the favor to the material.

Before anything else, my favorite thing as a fan of music was to make up my own story as to what it means.

Honestly, one of my favorite things about a director is when they understand what an actor brings to their role.

I think anything can feed you, depending on the way you look at it or listen to it.

I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.

My feet are dogs.

I fell in love with film and its potential. The idea of putting one image next to another image and creating meaning blew my mind.

A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.

I've always had difficulties with female characters.

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don't really think most people really understand what they've seen.