Quotes About Interpretation

I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.

You can start imagining all kinds of things characters would feel, but you have to have a sense of whether those imaginings might be right.

As an actor, you can't just imitate someone. You have to get under her skin.

Sometimes art imitates life.

Life imitates art and back around.

When you deal with Alan Ball, you're dealing with a person who is a genius in terms of how art imitates life.

My background is in acting, so I enjoy being able to show what I'm looking for. With acting, it's very immediate when you show someone what you're looking for, and the feedback is instantaneous as well.

Any author gets inspired by the experiences and events that happen to him or his immediate circle. While that's where the seed or the idea germinates, by the end of the story, it accounts for hardly anything in the book.

I think it's exciting that fans can immediately pick up on what my music is about and what I'm leaning towards: that they get to actually feel it.

It's not immediately categorisable. I don't know what to say when anyone asks what the 'Boosh' is.

I think the pairing of your material practice with your subject is something that is the constant concern of every artist for time immemorial.

The way I work is I like to immerse myself in the world of the film and in the character's lives, and then from that, I get a lot of ideas of how the film could be made, how it could be told.

It's the job of the artist to take something that everybody thinks they know about, they've made a decision about, they will be immovable on, and to shine a light on it.

When you do not have the dialogue to explain things, you will use everything to show and to tell the story. I think that this is what makes you believe that it is impeccable.

Words are an imperfect medium for explaining.

I never try to show an actor what to do or what to say. He has to find out for himself. The role of the director is to guide him to that state, and then to implement it.

I like to read people's gestures and implement them into my acting.

I think sometimes in the art world theres an implication that you need an entry-level education to walk through the door of a gallery. But you dont. The learning experience actually happens once youre in the gallery.

In any film there's always a historical implication.

There are people who are explicit and people who are implicit, right? Like I say, 'I think there is a God,' but I've seen Christian metalcore bands do altar calls at their shows and be like, 'Come get saved right now.' I think there's a subtler way, which is to say I'm being honest with my beliefs.

Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.

I think the biggest backhanded criticism-compliment I get is that I'm 'good at communicating.' Which implies that you're bad at doing.

What isn't said is as important as what is said.

Art is such an important part of our culture.