Quotes About Interpretation

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.

In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.

The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'

I think that the best literature has a core that you can't lock to a time or place but that can generate lots of meanings and translations.

Every time I make something I think about the people who are going to see it and every time I see something, I think about the person who made it.

The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as a sum of qualities. But from time to time it can face the receptive beholder in its whole embodied form.

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes.

Doing battle with themselves that way, every day, all the time and sometimes it sucks, but other times it results in people making sort of a dream comprehensible to someone else.

The Constitution is what the judges say it is, every time.

The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.

And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.

It is not my job to sit down and read peer-reviewed papers because I simply haven't got the time ... I am an interpreter of interpretations.

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.

Specificity of time and place drop away and one starts to think about the picture, as much as what it is of.

Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark.

So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time

Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they no longer have anything to say and take to performing instead of stating.

We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

I didn't want to make a record that was just guitar and voice, that was just the technology available to me. At the time, I remember thinking, "I am making a Faust album." That didn't translate.

People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.

Every film I try and make it the way I see it in my head, and it really just depends on the script and the people I'm working with or whatever interests me at that particular time.

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.