Quotes About Interpretation

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

Statistics The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

Give up on trying to be original. Every song has been sung, every picture has been painted, and every story has been told. The best one can do is sing, draw, or tell it again well.

The waking world isn't outside and separate from our mind. It's brought forth and enacted through our imaginative perception of it.

The organism's environment is the sense it makes of the world. This environment is a place of significance and valence, as a result of the global action of the organism.

Soteriological concepts are like aesthetic concepts in this respect. They're always subject to multiple interpretations, and their meaning is constituted by the communities of practice and thought in which they figure.

Actually, the camera was never overhead at any time. It was always a side view of me. Subsequently, after the picture was released, I saw some scenes from above and my clothes being pulled-and I think that was added later.

Probably 90 percent of the stuff I make has inevitably been done before... Whether it's playing Hamlet, which has been on the go for 400 years, or pieces from the cinematic world that also have been essayed before, I feel released by that.

To me, 'director's cut' means that what was released before was somebody else's cut. That, to me, always implies that what was released wasn't what the director wanted.

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

There is also an artistic element which is lead by the film maker. Issues of what is reality and objectivity are as always relevant as someone is going to edit the film.

Good and bad are not really relevant to me.

I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.

To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.

Your relationship to a film, and to cinema, is very much determined by yourself, so what is relevant is you.

Nothing is more difficult than to recreate in all its complexity than a distant age, and not only to get it right but make it seem fresh and relevant.

When art works travel from place to place, what you have is the opportunity to engage with the intellect of another person who has made a thing that should have enough information in it in the way it's constructed to start thinking about why that picture got made - not why it is relevant to you.

I believe that sometimes, when we talk about books, we're talking about the big picture - how they're relevant.

Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.