Quotes About Interpretation

I was an actor for a little bit. That's when I started to understand fiction - and that one of the great things about fiction is that you're dependent on the characters as much as they're dependent on you.

One of the great things about Marvel is that they allow you to take pieces of the character and storylines from the comics and doing your own thing with that.

No matter how hard I tried to popularize, I never cheapened a great work of art.

For me, the greatest pleasure is when you make something, and everyone argues about it.

The greatest thing in the world as an actor or an artist to connect.

There are people whose work I greatly admire who just don't write to my experience in any way.

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

That's always a cool thing to be the voice of what the eyes are seeing. It gives you the role of the Greek chorus and that's always fun to do.

It's challenging playing grey characters because there's no right way and you get to make your own rules.

There are a lot of grey areas in 'The Cry' and the grey is what I'm interested in as an actor.

The beauty about the 'Mahabharat' is that every character has shades of grey.

Of course, 'True Grit' is a Western, but we never considered our film a classical Western and honestly never thought about genre at all. We didn't talk about John Ford or Sergio Leone, even though we like their films. Really, we were driven only by our enthusiasm for Charles Portis's book.

We think that - as kids, you know - that kids make up stories and live in a sort of fictional place, but that, as grown-ups, we tell the truth and live in fact. But, of course, the reality is we take the facts that we know, and then we fill in all the blanks.

Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect.

I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change the name of the town, and make an entirely different picture.

This is absolutely the true answer, no word of a lie, 100% guaranteed: Q: What's the best way to turn my idea into a story? A: Whatever works for you.

We got to figure out or define what is a legal guarding position because there are times where he can move his hands out of the way, but it's hard to tell a guy what to do when somebody is running into you, you know what I mean? I don't know what a legal guarding position is at times.

I guess every single word I've ever said is going to be dissected now.

I love watching people, guessing what they are going to do next. I'm no Derren Brown, but I love that people stuff. Maybe that's why I'm an actor.

I think you can still look to Jesus' word for guidance in your life. It's just not the guidance that it seems like most Christians are applying to their own lives.

Sometimes you can just have a dialogue with an actor beforehand and shape the performance then, but other actors need more guidance on the set.

When I'm writing, I don't really have much other guide than, 'As a reader, how would I respond to this?'

I've always thought that the act of playing the guitar was the act of trying to make a point of playing the guitar.

I think that 'God & Guns' turned out a little more 'country' than we wanted it to be.