Quotes About Interpretation

Being called a dance photographer makes me bristle. You might say that dance is my landscape. The root of my interest is movement or, rather, how movement can be interpreted photographically, and dance provides a perfect opportunity for this.

It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix them in the mind, while providing a readymade seminar with your audience.

There's a difference between telling a story and not providing an explanation because you just don't do it well or pull it off.

While some artists hunt for more groundbreaking ideas, A Hawk and a Hacksaw finds novelty in tradition, proving that what's new depends only on who's listening.

I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'

I like to create provocative imagery. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it goes awry.

The bottom line is: Polls can be provocative, informative, fun or maddening. But as we move into 2020, it's important to be mindful that news organizations or those interpreting their polling results may not always be providing context that would allow us to have the most complete and accurate picture of the public's mood at a given moment.

I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place.

My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don't know them.

There's an inclination to get on the inside of Jesus' psyche, and I think that's a deep mistake because it assumes that what you have here is someone analogous to us.

Anyone can look through my sketchbooks as long as they don't have a background in psychiatric medicine.

And hey-the psychiatrist in the show is Italian also. So people are going to focus on what they want to focus on. There's not much you can do about that.

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.

In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.

Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you.

I think when I went to psychoanalysis, I actually believed that people said what they meant. This was my whole problem.

I want to play so many different characters. I want to, like, understand so many different people, and psychoanalysis, everything. I love that about my job: getting into the character and understanding it and doing the psychoanalysis and creating that character.

There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other.

I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability.

I feel music-making is more like a psychological game; each film has its own colour that needs to be identified and addressed.

Literature has become too psychological.

You read a script, you try and think through what is the best, most wide-ranging way of telling the story: who stylistically, character-logically, psychologically fits inside the world of what you're trying to do. A lot of it, when you're casting, is trying to get yourself in the head of a director.

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.