Quotes About Interpretation

When I was younger, I'd listen to a song and take it literally. I'd think, Boy, what a drag. How horrible, he must be really bummin'.

'The Exoricist' and 'The Shining,' there is some horrific stuff, and it's mostly what you put in your own head, which I find amazing.

I believe singing should be like being an actor. People shouldn't have any problem buying an actor being in a comedy or a drama or a horror film. That should be the same way with music.

I don't think 'Mulholland Drive' is a horror movie.

I've done a lot of bad movies, but my bad horror movies are the ones that people still find the good stuff in.

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

It is probably like an artist. They see in their head what they want to draw, and they draw it. It is like I have a feeling inside me that I want to create on a horse, and that is what I do.

Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that's exactly what it means.

But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.

For me, I just like to be as fun as possible, but I do like to bring a lot to a character. Given the script or the show, I know my boundaries, limits, and how far I can go with it.

I don't think about how many times how many heroines have said 'I love you' to how many heroes on screen and that I am also doing the same. It is how differently I can say the same thing in my own style or how I can bring a new element into it.

I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political.

Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.

I'm a huge art buff.

In many ways, acting is really like a science to me to figure out the human behavior of any character that I'm playing.

Human beings have always been mythmakers.

Every literary culture has among its first bearings the 'blether' of animals who seek to make sense of human existence.

What do you think is the world's most recognisable container of information? It's the human face. We are constantly reading each other and responding.

I believe that any auteur categorised in terms of an -ist or an -ism wouldn't be able to capture the complex essence of human nature.

The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not want to worry too much about semantics.

The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.

If you're drawing humans, it can be detrimental to be too naturalistic, which is like animating little corpses.

I think the main thing about comedy and humor is that it's impossible and always was impossible to define.

I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.