Quotes About Interpretation

An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate with a computer.

I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it.

I like clever lyrics, funny lyrics, dumb lyrics. I can never put my finger on what I like about them.

I didn't feel compromised as an actor, and allowed other people's fingerprints all over that aspect.

Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

You can say your lines a million different ways and play your character a million different ways and still hit the common, agreed-upon finish line.

When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

With screenplays and teleplays, they are mapped, really, in the blueprint of a finished product, which is something you're going to watch on a screen. But a book is an end to itself, really.

I'm not a really firm believer in theatre that is 'about anything.' I don't think theatre can be about anything other than the people who show up and the value that they hold.

Just going along with this, what I did, or what I do is I imagine not being myself seeing it, but imagine somebody else who's seeing it for the first time.

Acting is an expression of imagination. No firsthand knowledge is necessary.

You can have your own language. You can have your own dialect; you can have your own way of saying things, but if you don't actually understand the way the language fits together, it's chaos.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Is the Mona Lisa an 'accurate' representation of the actual human model for the painting? Who knows? Who cares? It's a great piece of art. It moves us. It makes us wonder, makes us gape - finally makes us look inward at ourselves.

Whenever I am making stuff, I got a thing in the back of my mind: 'Oh, this would be so perfect for' whoever.

Whoever has the best take is what matters. My challenge is finding the best take, and it'll always be that.

Whoever portrays me on screen need not necessarily be a look alike. Any hero could play my part.

Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.