Quotes About Interpretation

It gets worse when you realize that for YECs, 22 months is only 1.4 million years in evolutionary time.

For a long time I found myself calling so many things "genius." Sometimes you mean it literally and sometimes it's the opposite, but either way it is so heavy and has so much meaning.

I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.

I don't spend a lot of time judging anyone I play. Even if their function in the script is to be the villain, I concentrate on what their perspective of the events is. Not even to justify them.

I'm absolutely convinced that people cannot look and read at the same time. Not any more than you can kneel and jump at the same time. It's a completely different physiological setting.

That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.

One of the most puzzling things about a novel is that "the way it really was" half the time is, and half the time isn't, the way it ought to be in the novel.

It bugs me that people think my songs are personal because it means I have to explain myself all the time.

Time reveals all translation to be paraphrase.

Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far future, when we don't know what people are going to think about yet.

Every single time when you act in a film, and there's a different director, which of course as actors we're used to experiencing that's what we do, it's a different experience.

When I look at the Gospel, I see how it is speaking to me at this time. I see how to be to others and it helps.

Every time I act in something, I learn something about what the director is doing. One feeds the other.

The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.

A lot of times, if you watch sign language interpreters, there can be some lag time issues. When that happens, I think you lose the hearing audience.

I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.

I love the idea that if you build something with enough depth and texture, you can watch it again and again and see new things every time, and that's very important.

You will, in time, see and show others not just the superficial, but the details, the meanings, and the implications of all that you look at.

A photograph for me does not have a sense of spiritual seduction, it does not have an essence, that this is something that permeates and which is eternal through time.

On Saint Paul, he's probably one of the best theologians of all time, but I don't believe that some of his teachings are appropriate today.

I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is good and bad nature. It is all in where you stand at the time.

When I heard Charlie Parker the first time on a record, it had seemed like an old, scratchy kind of record and I didn't get it.

Bob Dylan, Lyrics: 1962-2001