Quotes About Interpretation

I feel like, as a female, I am maybe hyper-sensitive to feeling pushed into a corner or somebody taking a song a different way.

You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons.

Analytics is not about sitting behind a computer and pushing enter and having it produce an answer.

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.

With Rock Band, you can play along to Black Sabbath or Nirvana and possibly find new ways of appreciating their artistry by being allowed to perform parallel to it. Rock Band puts you inside the guts of a song.

Actors should be writers. While a writer puts the story on paper, an actor puts it on screen.

When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.

When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.

I mean, every novel's a historical novel anyway. But calling something a historical novel seems to put mittens on it, right? It puts manners on it. And you don't want your novels to be mannered.

You don't work as hard to watch a movie. You work harder to watch a play, so what the audience puts into it is interesting.

I'm not hurting anybody. Comedy's all about innuendo. I'm putting it out there just like anybody else.

Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.

But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.

To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step.

Honestly, as an actor, all I need to know, the way I kind of look at a scene, is like a puzzle. There are certain puzzle pieces that are bigger than others, and all I need to know is if this is going to fit here to make this part of the puzzle work.

I don't consider myself a flashy director. A lot of times, people will look and don't even know what I do.

People have these ideas about comic books and their adaptations as flashy and sort of surface-y, broad-strokes-type projects, but they're not, really.

One joke coming from one person can land completely flat, while somebody else delivering it in a unique way can really elevate it.

'Alemaari' is an experimental cinema of sorts. If audiences don't understand it, the film will fall flat.

I'm flattered by the fact that most people tell me they don't know what my politics are.

Balthazar Balsan is not a self-portrait. If he was, I'd have made the character more flattering.

When people write fan-fic sequels to one of your books, it gives you a very strange feeling. It is very flattering but strange, as if the characters have come to life again without you knowing.

You meet people and you hear the way they talk and the way they behave, and that subconsciously gets fed into the characters you create 'cause you have to make them flesh and blood somehow.

I always feel that if you're going to cover a song, you should make it your own and flip it on its head.