Quotes About Interpretation

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.

All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.

Your brain forms a story and, if you're lucky, there's a line where the story takes over the brain. You don't even know what you have.

Conservatives watch Fox News and read 'Breitbart.' Liberals watch MSNBC and read 'HuffPost.' When we agree, it's the truth; when we differ, it's fake news.

Amelia shows that it's not what happens in life that counts, but rather how you frame it, how you talk about it.

There's an old Fred Astaire movie where the stage becomes bigger and deeper and more complex. Moments like that really did impact on me and influence me.

Cinema is a form of art, and like every other art form, cinema also needs freedom of expression.

I don't think people know what freedom of expression really means.

Donald Trump has a curious understanding of what freedom of speech means.

I've always been open to the idea of an adaptation that does its own thing, that freely diverges from the original as long as it's true to the spirit.

What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it would only come in English. And so the adjustment is very difficult sometimes.

Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.

It's always interesting - how do you actually convey thought through song? We're used to the convention on stage. In film, we used to be used to it, and now sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. You need to be fresh and really look at the material.

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

I think it's always a challenge to adapt a beautiful literary work into a fresh and alive film.

I don't know what flirting is, really. Sometimes in women, friendliness comes across as flirting. That is not what it is.

I write about other people's experiences from time to time.

I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it.

I'm not a frustrated movie director: I'm not making games because I can't make movies.

A part of being an actress that is sort of frustrating is that the writers get to tell you about your character.

I adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations.