Quotes About Interpretation

It's not a matter of learning lines. It's a matter of getting into the ideas and the will of the person. It's a matter of, 'What does he want to do? What does he want to achieve?'

I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.

When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with the role and look for an emotional connection even if there is not a biographical one.

I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.

Obviously, any time you're closer in terms of what your knowledge is to a character, you can add something. But an actor's job is not to play only people he can identify with.

I think that I identify with my role in pretty much everything I have tried to do. I try to find something that I can understand about each character's behavior.

When I read a script I either immediately identify with the character or I don't. If I find myself reading the part in my own voice I think 'This is a bit of a drag, isn't it?' and it's no good.

The thing that I have a horror of is ideological theatre - Shakespeare never told us how to think.

Sometimes when you listen to me on the field, or when you listen to me on the morning of the game, you'd think I am an idiot. I can completely empathise with those who might think so.

I don't get hassled when I am doing a role that looks idiotic to me.

I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition.

You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.

At the end, we can embrace and love whatever we want of an author's work. But we also can't ignore a writer's express wish just because we don't happen to agree with it.

Sometimes art helps illuminate science.

I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.

All the great artists illustrate their approach to life in the work they make.

We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself.

All of the characters at Marvel were my ideas, but the ideas meant nothing unless I had somebody who could illustrate it.

That difficult place to put your finger on about the world - it needs to be illustrated.

In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.

I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining. One, I rarely have anything to say. It's much more interesting for me to discover some meaning that you didn't know that you could create.

I'm sometimes a cartoonist, and there's an audience for that, and I'm sometimes an illustrator, and there's an audience for that.

I'm interested in aesthetics, in the way things look, in finding something in an image that maybe people haven't seen.

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.