Quotes About Interpretation

In our hands, even the straightest lyric sounded shady.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it from that.

I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether it's happening or not. Somebody asked me 'What is acting?' And I said, 'Acting is listening.' And if you ain't listening, nobody's listening.

When you play a character you have to ask yourself, 'Can I make sense of what's happening here? Is this authentic?'

As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.

I like to play characters, man. I almost don't even think of them as good guys or bad guys. I know that's a hard thing to realize, but I really just think of them as characters.

Hardcore fans have a vision in their head, and if they look at your cosplay of it, you may not fit their vision.

Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it.

I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy.

The Bible has done more harm than any other book in the world.

It's true: What one person might consider 'hate speech,' another might consider to be harmless, or even funny.

So the language of musical harmony is an absolutely extraordinary one. It's a way of navigating one's emotional frameworks, but without the need to put things into words, and I think that, as with many other languages, it doesn't matter how much you know about a language.

Some composers end up writing for the guitar as they would write piano music or, more often, harp music. It isn't the same.

I grew up in England, and people there are pretty difficult. They never say what they mean, and when they do it comes out harsh.

None of us are good or evil, and that frustrates us because we want to see others as wearing a white hat or black hat. My hat is grey.

'Ratchet' has a lot of meanings. You can be a bad ratchet or a good ratchet. You can have fun, be ghetto, and get ratchet.

I'm definitely one of them artists that loves putting the track on and having fun with it, but in my own way.

If a director can't figure out what they might get from me or whether he or she wants to work with me based on what I've done, then I can't tell them anything more than what they don't know already.

When one sees me on screen I hope he or she only sees and feels the character, not Shefali.

I know all actors are different, but I've never sat down and asked the writers, 'Where are we headed? Am I good or bad?'