Quotes About Interpretation

The only thing that I can contribute as director is to work with the performers in a way that brings out the drama.

You can do 'Hamlet' while performing cartwheels... as long as the audience sees your eyes - you can make the performance real.

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.

It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.

When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.

It's all performing; that's what we do in life. We talk, we look, and we hear, and we listen. Your life is a performance.

I can interpret my own work honestly. And performing by myself seems to focus the attention in the right places.

Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.

You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history.

He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up.

I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.

Nobody knows what really happened in any historical period. There are some periods where we know more than others, though.

As a professional, you pick up ideas from your colleagues and the orchestras you work with, while coming up with mutual interpretations in very short periods of time.

You can't perish because of your own feelings; you have to embrace those things as an actor because it's part of your palette.

It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more.

One person's car is another person's scenery.

Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person.

The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world.

Una humanidad, global o parcial, q no tuviera ninguna conciencia de su pasado sería tan anormal como un individuo amnésico (…) en la medida en q el pasado humano es mal conocido, malinterpretado, los hombres y los grupos de hombres, tiene una visión incorrecta de su presente, ?y de su futuro

DREAM INTERPRETATION Simplified. Everything's either concave or -vex, so whatever you dream will be something with sex.

Den som kun ta'r spøg for spøg og alvor kun alvorligt Han og hun har faktisk fattet begge dele dårligt

History is an argument without end.

Because you could not translate the word apartheid into the more universal language of English, the wrong connotation was given to it.