Quotes About Interpretation

I don't keep a record of the parts I've played, and I don't compare characters, but maybe I should? I could construct a graphic that grades badness and madness levels? Interesting idea.

In a graphic novel, you have to allow for a certain amount of freedom on the reader's part to experience it how they choose.

I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things best when they're in graphics, not words.

I, like many annoying pedants, will wince when someone says 'less' when they should have said 'fewer.' But my 'poor' sounds like poo-ah, not pore; and my 'grass' rhymes with mass, not farce. What's wrong with that?

I consider myself a right-winger and Gray was certainly one.

We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.

Sometimes we see things as being black or white. Perhaps you have two categories of coworkers in your mind - the good ones and the bad ones. Or, maybe you look at each project as either a success or a failure. Recognize the shades of gray, rather than putting things in terms of all good or all bad.

I don't look at things in black and white. There are big gray areas. There's a lot of slippage.

There are gray areas in everything.

To ground a character in reality, you have to use shades of gray.

I realized all the writing I love lives in the gray area.

Fair use is always going to be a gray area, and it should be. We need to allow for things we can't see yet.

I think that all great art never strives to answer any questions; it just asks the appropriate ones at the appropriate time.

Movies are collaborative, and that's part of what makes it a great experience. They're different from a lot of other art forms, but also it makes it seem like when you see the final product, you go, 'I wouldn't have done that. I wouldn't have done this.'

If you have a great idea, you should be able to communicate it as well. It's like the sound of one hand clapping. You have a great idea but aren't able to express it - well, how great was the idea?

My confession: I listen to great music very badly.

I've always appreciated great acting performances, but I've even learned to appreciate not so great ones 'cause it's hard.

I have great respect for Brecht, but his path is not mine.

The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.

The great thing about first-time actors is that they listen. If you say something in a scene, they were listening to it. They weren't thinking about the return line.

The great thing about fiction is that everything you care about ends up going into the book.

The great thing about being an artist is, we want our work to be seen.

The great thing about America is that people take its history and mythologise it.

The great thing about fiction is you can talk about things without being didactic about them, but hopefully forge a connection with people and an understanding about a shared humanity that tells its own story.