Quotes About Interpretation

I suppose every filmmaker, at least the filmmakers I really like, are amateur psychologists to a degree. Or they come from a psychological approach, I guess.

To me, the psychology behind the character is critical. So I work very hard to get into the mind of the man that I'm going to be playing, because number one, I want to understand why he's doing what he's doing. It's essential, it's absolutely essential.

I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.

Singing involves a great deal of psychology.

One of the many joys of being an actor is to understand the human psychology.

It's impossible to tell how you're perceived. I think it's important not to think about it too much, because it really means nothing. Some people think we're a rock band, and that's ridiculous, and the idea of us being a folk band - you sit in a pub in Ireland and hear those guys play, and you're like, 'Yeah, we're definitely not a folk band.'

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

As lifelong fans of comic books, Dan Didio and myself, we definitely have our own takes on what make for successful comics and the kind of comics that we want to publish.

I am a conventional science fiction author. But that said, once your work is published, it no longer belongs to you. It belongs to the readers and they will derive all sorts of interpretations.

Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed.

I feel like every single time I've published a book, there's some little light in me that goes out. I've seen the way people can misunderstand or misinterpret things, if not maliciously, then without a lot of sensitivity.

My first published writings were trying to take scientific concepts and make them clear for a general audience.

It's one thing to know your lines, another to be able to deliver them. The taste of the pudding is in the delivery.

Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings.

You don't have a face to work with, so your voice has to do all the work until you see the animation. So, a lot of it I had to pull back because it was too big.

No artist is well served in thinking what will happen to their works. The best one can hope is that they'll enter the mainstream, and people will pull bits and pieces from them.

A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

We want to pull out songs from the American song book, and we want to make them palatable for a modern audience.

How I did the first 'DiCaprio,' it was mine. I was pulling from everywhere. I was getting stuff from movies. I was getting stuff from interviews. Everywhere. And it was fine, because it was just put out for free on SoundCloud.

I do think, oddly, that a comedic actor has a better chance of pulling off a dramatic role than a great dramatic actor has of being able to pull off a highly comedic role.

It took me a lot of times watching it that I started to appreciate 'Pulp Fiction.'

The Bible sits on the pulpit of hundreds of different religious sects.