Quotes About Interpretation

If I like a film, I usually appreciate the way it was made the first time.

You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.

Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.

We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right in his own eyes.

This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before their eyes; they do not really see it, they create it.

What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because they have this archaic quality.

In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

Most of the time he [Marlon Brando] sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper.

How we see the world changes all the time. It all depends on our mood.

It is true that I visualize music and, as I visualize music, I have some sort of story running in my head, all the time.

I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.

It happens that we DON'T SEE CHRIST AS GOD but simply the right man at the right time at the right place.

The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.

I think the greatest thing about being an actor is that you can become other people. ... You have the opportunity to explore ... alternative ways of living for a brief time.

Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time.

I've always worked to find really deep meaning of song and also at the same time having it covered in sugar, so it can be taken two or three different ways.

A labyrinth of symbols... An invisible labyrinth of time.

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.

I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.

I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether its a man or a woman.

I like to think about what the song is saying, the story of it, and conveying the mood of that to the audience. But at the same time, sharing through interacting with them and engaging them.

For some time its been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.