Quotes About Interpretation

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

Stage is the place of the playwright: you're guided by great actors and directors, but it's the playwright's word on the page that counts.

If we believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God, then we shouldn't be recognizing it only as a book of historical and economic significance.

Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It's more about that same story being filtered through somebody else's sensibility.

People expect things from art that are horrible for us who make it! They put the things we make in these restrictive places called 'museums,' then don't want to hear another word from us.

I like the idea of letting the music do its own work and the stories being more expressionful - if that's a word - in people's imagination. I've just got a thing about people and songs telling you how you should feel.

'Design' is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.

I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.

Every time I get in an Uber in L.A., they're like, 'Oh, great accent. Are you from Australia?' I constantly have to repeat myself when I'm in North America because no one understands a word I'm saying.

The more you try to pin a word down, the more you realize that it has its own cape, sword and little hat.

Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes packaged and summarized in a word like 'emo' or 'grunge'... or 'folk music.' I think that's just language itself, trying to understand the mysteries of the world.

You can't hear a word and just hear it as raw sound; it always evokes an associated meaning and emotion in the brain.

To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.

Working with Tim Burton is like a psychic experience -Tim waves his hands and says, 'I don't know,' and you go home and do it. He's the most articulate nonverbal person in the world. He doesn't say a word, and you know exactly what it means.

I want to be able to speak with errors in my wording, errors in my grammar. When you type things into Google search, it corrects your words. With speech, I want it to be general enough, smart enough, to know 'No, he couldn't have meant these words that I think he said. He must have really meant something similar.'

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

Body language and tone of voice - not words - are our most powerful assessment tools.

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.