Quotes About Interpretation

I'll flip samples where one's a completely dark song and the next one is a complete sexual song. People think my whole thing is a dark thing, but I don't.

I dont understand flirting.

We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.

I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn't because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy.

When I dance, I picture myself and the floor in my head.

A lot of times we would do covers - Chuck Berry or J.J. Cale or all kinds of cool songs - and whenever we did that I would always listen to the original record and really try to figure out what made it a great record and bring that to the floor.

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.

I feel like I can see the music and can see how the character of the music actually flows. For me, that's music to my eyes.

My lens and my personality, it's just fluid. The art isn't just in one place.

Much of the magic of language, of course, lies in its fluidity.

Some people say 'flutist.' Others say 'flautist.' I just say 'flute player.' That's what I was.

I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.

I see a lot of actor-bashing because they are the face of the film. Actors are just following someone else's direction.

Personally, I'm not too fond of remakes.

Any time you give the average person the opportunity to explain themselves on a national scale, they're always going to sound like a fool.

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

I've heard of actors like De Niro and Streep who stay in character all day long. And Daniel Day-Lewis did it for 'My Left Foot.' I don't do that myself.

If I'm reading a book by a footballer I don't want to read about games, how he scored or played well. People want to read what you thought, not what happened.

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

A lot of linguists in the market, especially interpreters of foreign languages, do not have a great command over the English language, especially if they are translating into English.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

My work isn't about form. It's about seeing.

For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.

Any form of art is political if you make it that way.