Quotes About Interpretation

For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors - which is the logic of narratives in general - over reality, which is irreducibly random and senseless.

I think in any work of art, there always will be randomness about what is good, what is bad.

I've always published a range of responses to my work in the letters section of my comic book.

The interpretation of medicine today is 'do your clinical values fall within a normal range?' Everything in the globe right now is in the law of averages, which mean absolutely nothing to individuals.

I formulate my style based on a range of influences from books to films and my moods.

Almost anything can be funny if said the right way - but it has to be said the right way.

You know, directors are funny people. They live with these movies for a year or more. And when you go in to score the picture, you're fooling with their child. They want to know everything that happens to the score - and why.

The funny thing is the songs that people think are about me probably aren't. And the songs that are probably are the ones they wouldn't think... so that's where it kind of is funny.

People sometimes ask who I would cast in my books and I never have any idea. I don't think I could ever write a book thinking of it as a movie the whole time. This would be like building a house and filling it with furniture just so you could have blueprints.

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference.

I like the idea that things can exist in different formats - in a gallery, a fashion ad, in books.

It's not that I can't find art beautiful. I just don't know what to do, standing there in the gallery. I don't know what to think about. Once I've seen it, I've seen it; that takes about two seconds. I am interested and then immediately bored, immediately.

It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.

The piano is not really in the language of the 'Game of Thrones' score.

As a gamer, I like to go up and look at people's faces and see how good of a job they did.

Games tell stories best when they're elliptical and ambiguous and there's a sense of roaming and freedom.

At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media.

Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks.

I don't ever consciously change gears when I play jazz or classical. It's all music.

I think the biggest thing I can say to that is every female is different. Not that every man isn't, but speaking on behalf on my gender, I think women can watch sports exactly like men, and others watch it exactly the opposite way.

I thought of Gene Krupa's drumming, his staccato drumming. I went and put 'Misirlou' to that rhythm.

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.