Quotes About Interpretation

A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new generations of readers.

There are two sides to every story, and sometimes three, four, and five.

Both mediums, theatre and film, have really interesting sides to it that I really like to explore.

I always feel safe with a woman photographer. I feel that no matter how they interpret something, they understand all sides of it because they are women, and women are complex creatures.

If you listen to Donald Trump speak on almost any given issue, you will hear him take both sides of that issue - in the same sentence, sometimes. It's very, very hard to pin him down in any specific way.

I think that's what Peter Morgan does so well, is to show very balanced sides of everyone.

No one should take away people's rights. But with respect to 'the right to arm ourselves,' we have lost sight of our own history.

Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.

In day-to-day life, our brain sends lots of signals. In acting, there are no signals. You have to believe in what you are trying to portray.

Sexual signals can be received without being consciously sent.

When I write a word in English, a simple one, such as, say, 'chief,' I have unwittingly ushered a querulous horde into the room. The Roman legionary is there, shaking his cap, or head, and Andy Capp is there, slouching in his signature working man's headgear.

The great thing about Satan is it's kind of like Hamlet. Everyone puts their own signature on it in a way, whether it's Al Pacino or little old me.

Ram Gopal Varma saw my pictures and called me for a meeting. He signed me on to play Vishnu Manchu's wife in one of his movies. He did not give me dialogues, instead he asked, 'What will you do if you were Vishnu's wife and this is the scene?' He explained the scene and I gave my inputs.

It's very hard for me to think about my songs and attribute some significance to them.

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.

Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.

One of the challenges for lawyers can be explaining, first of all, what the legal issue is and, second, its significance. And both of those are important.

As actors, we are selfish. When listening to a story, we think of the significance of our character in that story.

Art is significant deformity.

I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.

People believe the best way to learn from the data is to have a hypothesis and then go check it, but the data is so complex that someone who is working with a data set will not know the most significant things to ask. That's a huge problem.

At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.