Quotes About Interpretation

You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know what kind of universal concept you're tapping into.

I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time.

I say things, but I say them indirectly. At the same time, I try to make my images as direct as possible.

What you're trying to do as an actor is somehow trick yourself into believing that these words have never been said, and so you've got to discover them for the first time.

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism.

The meaning of an artwork is changing depending on who's looking at it - depending on what culture, depending on what time, and so forth. It's alive.

They were photographs you had to explain, which meant they were a failure.

photographs you had to explain, which meant they were a failure.

Sometimes you say a word so many times that it loses its meaning...

Well, I don't think she does have pleasure, it is just a bad habit

Of course I did not understand all he said, but I learned more and more to know what he meant

She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist's pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes.

Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.

Timothy Dunnigan: The kinds of metaphorical language that we use to describe the Hmong say far more about us, and our attachment to our own frame of reference, than they do about the Hmong.

The kinds of metaphorical language that we use to describe the Hmong say far more about us, and our attachment to our own frame of reference, than they do about the Hmong." So much for the Perambulating Postbox Theory.

Shakespeare was an anti-Semite

I confess I didn't totally get it. We understand the world by extension of ourselves. It's hard to get why people feel differently. It's hard to believe they even do.

If the truth is told, things are just as bad as you yourself care to make them.

Quero ver as coisas com olhos novos e formar minha opinião.

Do you think ladies' eyebrows can communicate as well?" she asked. "No, they don't have sufficient thicketry," he said with authority. "Thicketry?" "Yes, that is the official term.

Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and where they will go, and what they are capable of doing, but they need me to write it down for them because their handwriting is so bad.

The way I dance is by writing.

good dialogue encompasses both what is said and what is not said.