Quotes About Interpretation

With Eric Rohmer - as with Mozart, Austen, James, and Proust - we need to remember that art is seldom about life, or not quite about life. Art is about discovery and design and reasoning with chaos.

It's simply not bias for a judge to explain her reasoning in a dissent.

I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

Mohan Raja is an interesting filmmaker. He is constantly, if I may use the word, contradicting himself. He explains a scene, and then he will try to break that and rebuild it. That, to me, is filmmaking. Every scene is constructed after a lot of discussions.

I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.

My idea about the role of artists is to get people to look at things in a way that's different than the way they normally would if they are being told how to think, what to do. I think when people receive information through art, they are more open-minded.

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.

I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.

In a lot of ways, I feel like I'm just taking the music that comes to me and trying to make it as beautiful as I can. You can't really predict or control how people will receive that music.

Sometimes I say stuff that people may see things more than what I'm seeing. I just say what God sends me, even if I don't know what I'm talking about or I can't break down the revelation of it. I just take what I receive and put it out there to the people.

If the public doesn't receive what you say, people can start to build your brand for you.

I like to do things in my own way and have my own personal language, but I can't control how it's received.

I am always rethinking how art is perceived and received, questioning our relationship to art. That's always been a constant.

If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant.

When you work on something in an edit room with just a couple of other people, you never know how it is going to be received.

The way a play is seen is completely dependent on the circumstances and the world in which it is received.

People can feel stuff in a different way when it's through music. If you can get some inspiration into a song, it might be received in a more impactful way than if you were just to have a conversation.

Our job as actors is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving and processing.

Acting is communication. It's giving and receiving.

The Bible has been through millions of rounds of exegesis and interpretation, but it hasn't been until quite recently that it's been taken as the absolute truth, to the point where people expect it to inform ideas about biology and life on this planet.

Your intention for a book is never the same as the reception.