Quotes About Interpretation

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.

Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

A lot of my work is about text taken to the point of abstraction.

The text is a limited field of possible constructions.

When I did plays in high school and college, I never remember memorizing my lines, but once I had blocking, I had all my lines memorized. Once I had movement associated with words, it was fine. Before I had blocking, it was just text on a page. Once it became embodied, it was much easier.

Originalism says that when you consult the text, you give it the meaning it had when it was adopted, not some later modern meaning.

I plan someday to do a one-man show based solely on the e-mails of Bellamy Young. And people will think I've written a brilliant comedy myself when, in fact, all the text will be directly from Bellamy.

How you carry a story in pictures is different than how you do it in text.

It is not the responsibility of the judiciary to amend poor legislative drafting, even if judges would personally prefer a different outcome than what is required by a statute's text.

I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character names sometimes - I'm often very much inspired by things that I misunderstand.

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become.

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

I don't Twitter. I don't text for those very reasons. I don't want anything to be misinterpreted. I would encourage our guys not to do that.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

I think each film should be regarded as its own specific text.

I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.

People are drawn to preaching that is passionate and offered with conviction. Passion comes when the preacher has spent significant time with the text, and when God has spoken through the text in a way that addresses the preacher's life first.

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense of our social experience or rather, the way we are made sense of by the discourses of our culture.

If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of the part is not mechanical or deliberate. It grows out of the text.