Quotes About Interpretation

The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

The iPad - is that a phone or a computer? If I put it on my wall is it a TV?

When I see things that are inspiring, I must write a song about it. Some people make a t-shirt or slap something on a wall with paint, but I must make music and freestyle rap.

You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if somebody's giving you stuff, if somebody's talking, giving you their take on things, what makes you laugh, generally speaking, is going to be somebody who is telling it in an angry way.

My mother always said, 'The best way to ruin a story is to tell the other side.'

Fiction is the best way I know how to think something through.

The best way to watch a film is to not know anything about the person who made it.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

If you come at the Bible as if it's a document of encyclopedic information, you've pretty much killed any kind of life change in a seeker and unbeliever.

Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it'll be too stuffy.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.

Not all stories are meant for the big screen.

I guess the biggest challenge to doing any kind of animation voice work is that you only have your voice to tell the story.

I am bilingual.

I don't feel an image can really bind an actor.

I think of the Bible as an unauthorized biography.

All I do is look, listen and try to make sense of what I find, in biological terms.

I'm playing jazz throughout the song 'Black Sabbath.' That's what it is there. I mean, I'm moving some other things around, but that is forever in there.

I think one of the blessings that I've had in watching, you know, films be made now from four of my books is to realize that it's a separate thing. It's a separate work.

I took a very small image and blew it up to enormous scale. What happens when you do that is that the information in the image starts to become indistinct. The image darkens.

I don't tend to write articles and blogs because, I think, if you went into the theatre knowing that this is the writer's view on x, y, and z, it's just game over for the play.

I feel like everything with me gets blown out of proportion. I think it's because I'm so quiet about things that people just run with anything they hear.