Quotes About Interpretation

Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we need to move the very stars to pity.

Honestly, the two main things that I always look for is, when I read the script for the first time, do I read it quickly? Because if I read it quick, that's an important telltale sign.

As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other.

We're making so many images today and it's unbelievable. I shoot stuff all the time. I try to figure a lot out before I paint. I do a tremendous amount of shooting.

Sometimes when you hit send, you can imagine the message going straight into the person's heart. But other times, like this time, it feels like the words are merely falling into a well.

It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines.

It sounds formulaic now, but at the time, I was interested in the difference between the thing and the representation of the idea of the thing - the space between the two.

What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time.

You get to a certain point, especially if you're a comedian, where people think certain things. It's like, I don't take the time to explain it to people, it's just part of what I do.

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time.

It's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture.

The difference between the first time I read something and the tenth time I read something is generally pretty profound. Even if the script is the same, just the way that I read it is different.

In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.

One of the things I'm constantly telling my students is that they're never going to write a poem everyone gets, or if they do, they've failed. They should leave someone behind every time.

All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time.

If you get a song right for its usage at the time, it can be useful to others. ...Those songs are more friendly to other artists looking for material.

Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.

People can't help what topics cut them deep. It all depends on who's inferring - and what the contexts of their lives are at the time.

Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it.

Sometimes what you lose in the time it takes to let an actor do something that you don't like as a director, you gain in not shutting them down creatively by telling them their idea sucks.

Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.

By the time I get through writing a score, I know the book better than the book writer does, because I've examined every word, and questioned the book writer on every word.

Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.