Quotes About Interpretation

I love when a song is conceived as a jigsaw puzzle in the studio, and then it's a natural to play live. That's my gauge of success for a song.

To approach a poem as if it is a puzzle to be understood is to miss the point.

Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified to take part in a walking race. But just as all of us can and do walk, so all of us can and do use language poetically.

I'd say that what we hear is the quality of our listening.

One of the things that's really important in 'Queen of the Night' is how people communicate with their clothes.

There is no first-hand account of what the Queen was saying or thinking, so my job as an actor is to interpret her circumstances.

Drag queens, our whole art form is about taking inspiration from artists we adore.

I think music is great at posing a question. It doesn't always have to give the answer, but it can open the dialogue.

What is it about animation, graphics, illustrations, that create meaning? And this is an important question to ask and answer because the more we understand how the brain creates meaning, the better we can communicate, and, I also think, the better we can think and collaborate together.

The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Science is about questioning things.

I look at art as a container. You can't get inside it, so you have to ask all of these questions.

Whether it's an FBI agent or a maid, if they want me to wear a pink tutu, I might have a few questions, but I'll wear it for the sake of the story.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.

There are always different roles and questions to be asked about certain characters.

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.

A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they've seen before.

Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it. It's hard to be that quick and articulate in life. You've got to try to make it seem discovered, you know, not rehearsed.

It's strange how the mind works while you're acting, because you have all sorts of quick thoughts going on as well as the motivations with the character.

I can access footage much quicker, yes. But in terms of living with a film and knowing what's right, digital doesn't do that for you.

Curating isn't just a matter of taste. It involves building up real knowledge of the items in your care. As the world gets quicker, and shallower, and bite-sized, retaining our ability to take a deep dive into history is more and more important.