Quotes About Interpretation

I think music is a very subjective topic, maybe I can like something that the other person cannot.

I personally feel like certain topics and certain issues aren't really being conveyed the right way in music nowadays. It's all very direct and to the point without leaving anything to the imagination.

But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs.

Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'

When I'm struck by things, I want to hear more and find out more. I remember when Lana Del Rey was on 'SNL,' this supposedly disastrous performance. She's doing this pretentious torch song, and I thought, 'I don't know what she's doing, but it's really moving me.'

I always expect people to be torn when they see one of my films and divided in some way.

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.

When watching 'The Passion,' Jews and Christians are watching two entirely different films. For two hours, Christians watch their Savior tortured and killed. For the same two hours, Jews watch Jews arrange the killing and torture of the Christians' Savior.

A woman will toss her head and a man will say, 'Oh she's trying to pick me up,' when in fact she's not doing that at all. So, women actually have to be a little careful with what they do, because men will pick up things that they didn't mean.

The only good Philip K. Dick film is 'Total Recall.' It's faithful to the book. Arnie gets it.

A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

Hearing other peoples' interpretations of your lyrics, to me, is just a total kick in the pants. Half the time, they're better.

I remember playing Billy Cobham's 'Total Eclipse' for Snoop Dogg. I also played him Frank Zappa, 'Apostrophe.' And I played him 'Saint Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast.'

In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.

I have total confidence in Beaute Prestige International to accompany me in creating a perfume that interprets my work and my world.

Islam will be what Muslims make of it. And it is the sum total of the interpretation that Muslims give to it.

I was always a data guy, not a theorist. Theorists can maintain total purity. The data are always messy.

As an artist, when you make something, you want the world to see it in its totality, especially when the intention is not to titillate.

In acting, one should look at the film in totality. Improvisations should only be made keeping in mind the limits of a character. Always believe in team work.

Anything can be taken out of context and anything you say or do is not necessarily an accurate reflection of who you are in your totality. There are small moments of your life that when taken into account with the rest of your life start to paint a picture.

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.

Murakami's ability to deconstruct and his aesthetic and conceptual freedom have been totally inspiring for me.

Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you've written and every conclusion you've come to.

What I think and what the world thinks is totally different.