Quotes About Interpretation

I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.

In my experience, very few people walk out of a movie. You have them for two hours, and you're free to explain or not explain whatever you see fit.

It is not always important that you have dialogues. How you present your role depends on the director and the cameraman; the actor also has few things to do.

There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction.

The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

You learn a lot, writing fiction.

I'm always a little apprehensive about 'decoding' fictional stories.

Any fictional story will take things from real events.

I'm always in awe of people who are artists in their fields - people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, they've created value in the world.

Music is completely not reality. There's nothing about music that has any meaning at all. A lot of people disagree with that, but it's basically true. You can listen to a piece of music, and fifteen people will give you fifteen answers of what it's about.

Bharatnatyam is defined in many ways and everyone has an opinion. But I see it as a consummate art - a kind of fifth Veda.

Different refs judge fights differently.

What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.

I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the complex layers of an author's work.

I love books that give you space to climb inside there. And you have to run to keep up in places, and you have to fill in a lot of blanks yourself. So it almost becomes your story.

When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.

The less you know about the person, the more you fill in the rosiest details.

Most actors do that. They fill in the blanks. You don't want to play a cipher.

But I just think we've got such a continuity with what we're doing that most people come in and fill in the blanks. And sometimes we leave a lot of blanks to be filled.

I love my painting - it fills me with passion. But it's not something I expect anyone else to love.

When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.

I came to the conviction that film criticism, in and of itself, was an art.

Film music, over the years, has taken from everybody.