Quotes About Interpretation

Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.

With dance and theatre, I think people get very nervous about not knowing the right things. They feel like they've missed something, or that they're not bright enough to watch it. It's not a test.

I think there is no world without theatre.

Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.

Of all the mediums, theatre is the one where you really need to have something to say - because it's just you, the words, and the space.

One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.

I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.

I actually want to do a theatrical adaptation of 'Hateful Eight' because I actually like the idea of other actors having a chance to play my characters and see what happens from that.

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. It's important to alternate between the two activities.

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable.

It's a difficult thing to stamp your songs with a label, to stamp your record with a theme. Often times that compromises what you're doing.

Seriously, my music really does help my acting, and, like, getting in and out of a character from a different lifestyle and writing a song about it. Likewise, my acting inspires the music because I can write a theme that I wouldn't necessarily approach at all in life.

I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.

When I was a student looking at Leonardo DaVinci and all those guys - Italian, Dutch, or whatever - it's incredible how each piece of the painting fits to the main theme that they want to express.

To this day I over prepare. I draw storyboards for every scene - chicken scratches so crude that they amuse and horrify the crew. I send out shot lists, act out the scenes, and search for a theme that I can relate to. It's my favorite time of the process.

An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea.

Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.

In terms of 'Solaris,' I didn't really think about the religious aspect an awful lot. There's one scene at a dinner party, and it's discussed, but it wasn't an overwhelming theme for me.

I'm a big fan of Robert Altman, and one of the things I love in 'The Long Goodbye' is the way that he plays with the theme; it's just used in all these different ways.

Always remember: My general theme is 'There is no message.' There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That's. My. Theme.

I hate being bored when I read a story. Even a well-trod theme can be made fresh by a different perspective or fresh writing.

Jerry Goldsmith's 'Voyager' theme is a brilliant reworking of the original material.