Quotes About Interpretation

My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper.

In general I'm more attached to a cinema that tries not to replicate the real world and life.

There are two stories for every life; the one you live & the one others tell

Because art is life, playing to other rhythms.

our lives are stories we tell ourselves.

I always viewed life as material for a movie.

Songs are kind of alive, I think; once you finish writing them, that doesn't mean that that's it for the song. It can have its own little life, I think.

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

It is only as we focus our thoughts on heaven that we will correctly interpret life on earth.

Believing that art is either worth a fortune or worth nothing at all.

They say life is all about connecting, like that's a good thing. But when brain and eyes are lining up you know different.

To ask for a map is to say, "Tell me a story."

And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into.

I believe you can only draw from your own life as an actor. All the characters I've played, I only have my infinite eye and the presence of my life to take from.

I have learnt through doing interviews throughout my life that the way that somebody can write about something can change entirely how it was meant, or what actually happened.

Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.

Because we all come from different circumstances, our life experiences really color how we view things.

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

I take something that happened to me in 1983, and I make it happen to somebody else in 1943. I pick my life apart that way, try to understand it better by writing straight through it.

If I have to hold a note for a long time, I imagine it as moving and spinning, for the note has to have life. In a way, a singer actually refreshes a note with every beat that it's held.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

I guess the anthropomorphising is something I've done all my life.

Don't confuse facts with reality.