Quotes About Interpretation

Putting any situation through our comedy lens always goes on in our heads.

I think for anybody reading the book they're going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I think that once that gets fixed, it's quite hard to shake.

Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.

I really like getting inside the heads of female characters. I think I can do that well, and I enjoy it.

I do feel like that's what a writer does, is he goes into other people's heads.

In every shoot, between the actor and the director there is manipulation. I'm not saying that negatively. It's healthy.

I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.

I hear people talk in my head, and I write it down. I choose where they live and how they dress to be real.

When I hear people who love my music and are trying to copy it, it sounds strange to me because it sounds so simple, made by other people. It took me a lot of years to find the balance, to find a way to be on the edge of being accessible but at the same time having the echo of a deep, more complex world.

When people ask me about my dialogue, I say, 'Don't you hear people talking?' That's all I do. I hear a certain type of individual, I decide this is what he should be, whatever it is, and then I hear him. Well, I don't hear anybody that I can't make talk.

When I hear people clapping at the wrong times, I think that's great. We have got a listener that's not used to going to - we have got a new listener.

There are times my stories become - what I feel - not only accessible to hearing me on television, but they make wonderful reading.

For me, my first hearing of the script matters. It has to excite me as an actor and as an audience.

I try and create choreography that's in conversation with the music that the audience is hearing.

If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.

The only other things, and again these things are hearsay, is that he could be pretty rough on directors, because he knew exactly the way he wanted to play the part. And he did so.

I hope I can become a good enough filmmaker where I can take a script that I'm not 'heart and soul' into, but I could still make something really great out of it.

As an artist, it is heartwarming to see other artists appreciate your work by making covers and renditions of your original track.

I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.

Heaven and hell are something that people create to make some people feel guilty and other people like myself laugh.

I took what I was given in Christianity and put it into my secular, hedonistic life.

What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

I wanted to do the whole album in black and white, and it really killed me that when you see it in the light it's got green in it. I don't know what the hell that was about.

My frustration has always been that I'm a Christian, but I don't buy into, never have bought into, the belief that Jesus and God are these men who just dictate that this is how you have to live your life or you are going to burn in hell.