Quotes About Interpretation

I'm always an advocate of 'acting is reacting,' which can be difficult.

That's what acting is. You're not alone. It's reacting. That's what we do.

I read a bunch of books about Mengele because he was pretty sick. That was how 'Angel Of Death' came about. I know why people misinterpret it, just because we don't say Nazism is very bad. They get this knee-jerk reaction to it.

I think somebody getting repulsed is a positive reaction. Any reaction is positive.

There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction.

When I was working with Barry Sonnenfeld, I'd watch him set up a shot and talk to him about what he was seeing and what it was to shoot comedy. He told me that a lot of times with comedy, it's not just about getting the joke, but getting a reaction to the joke. That's the laugh - it's somebody's else's reaction to the joke.

Creativity is about a reaction.

It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants.

Why are all the artists so dead-set on distorting? It seems to be a reaction against photography, but I'm not sure.

It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.

There is a broad range of reaction to the work, as there is a broad range of work I make.

You don't know what people are looking for. What you know is what you feel like might be missing. It's up to the people to agree with you or disagree with you, and you'll know in their reaction.

I can only be instinctive in my reaction to Shakespeare.

You kind of know what kind of reaction a Yorgos Lanthimos movie is going to get.

I quite like Jackson Pollock, and have a real gut reaction to it, so it does whatever it does to me.

There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something.

I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.

The way I put together images is a reactive art.

Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.

I tell you I can't read a book, but I can read de people.

Sarcasm doesn't read sarcastic in print.

We are not only what we read. We are how we read.

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.