Quotes About Interpretation

Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists.

None of my paintings I would say are religious.

I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.

I wouldn't approach the issue of judging in the way the president does. Judges can't rely on what's in their heart. They don't determine the law. Congress makes the law. The job of a judge is to apply the law.

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

Those who love him love that he sells the most art; they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.

Most campaigns rely on photographs because the moment you do something that is a graphic interpretation where any artistic license has been taken, I think a lot of people are scared that it's going to be perceived as propaganda.

In writing my historical novels, I have to rely upon my imagination to a great extent. I think of it as 'filling in the blanks.' Medieval chroniclers could be callously indifferent to the needs of future novelists. But I think there is a great difference between filling in the blanks and distorting known facts.

You rely on a lot of things about learning to play a particular character.

I need to rely on the director's confidence and what he sees in me.

Acting is mathematics for me. I do very little homework and rather rely on my imagination for playing a role.

The Qur'an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent.

Acting is probably the only profession where you are relying only on empathy.

I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.

If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily read the book to see the film. If you do need that, then that means that it's a failure. That is what I think.

One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time.

I write and film history; I don't make it. One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach.

Take any movie with an actor you like. Turn your head and just listen to the performance. In some cases, the physical presence remains as strong when you can't see the actor, when it's just the voice.

I don't know how one can differentiate between comedies. A burger is a burger and though it may taste differently in different food joints, the fact remains that it is still a burger. It's the same with comedies.

He Who Remains is in the comics, but the version in our show was very different.

I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.

You don't want to remake something that's just been made, as an actor.

We remake 'Hamlet' all the time. That's sort of what we do, humans.