Quotes About Interpretation

I'm not copying Bipasha in 'Trishna.' It is no doubt a remake of 'Jism,' but there are certain differences.

I'm just curious how it'd look like if someone tried to remake my work. But I really believe that it's hard to remake of any of my work.

'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.

In 'The Heritage Guide to the Constitution,' you find a most remarkable collection of scholarly work. Over a hundred people have contributed to explaining what the Constitution says, what it means, how it has been interpreted over the years, and how it is important to people today.

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, 'Clint, you must remember, it's only a movie.'

I remember when I had to copy writing off the board at school it just looked to me like a magic eye picture, I could just see so many shapes.

I remember when I heard 'Jessie's Girl' for the first time, I was like, 'This is so applicable to lesbians!'

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

The funny thing with Ophelia is that I remembered her being this really cool, awesome female character when I read 'Hamlet' in high school, and when I went back and read it, no, she's not.

In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect.

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think.

I thought acting was just going on and remembering all of one's lines.

A lot of the time, when I find myself critiquing scientific accuracy in movies, I have to remind myself that it had to get close enough to getting it right to get things wrong.

I loved reading when the critics in New York would say that some of my films reminded them of Lenny Bruce.

One day I was watching some pundits screaming at each other on a news show. It suddenly reminded me of this painting on my wall, of balloons with goofy faces rising - pundits screaming at each other and arguing off into the ether.

The asparagus effect is what happens sometimes when you render 2D images into 3D.

Most people assume that my style is so outlandish and out there, but the reality is I like very classic pieces just rendered unusually.

The song came out to be a gem, just came out to be a really, really interesting rendition of it.

Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways.

Shakespeare is renewed each time you see it or read it. I've seen 'Midsummer Night's Dream' so many times, and each time it's a little different, or a different line leaps out at me. It's like re-reading a good book over and over, always noticing something you hadn't seen the time before - and that's rare.

I will pick a raft of cartoons. And then later, it'll come time to run this cartoon. And I'll look at it, and I won't quite get it anymore. Because sometimes the grenade goes off in the moment, and then it doesn't repeat down the line.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.