Quotes About Interpretation

Our people could not talk with these white-faced men, but they used signs which all people understand.

I used to believe in signs, omens, patterns, secret purpose, synchronicities.

When my daughter was young, she thought all electronic signs were mine.

The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language.

I believe in numbers and signs.

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.

Actors have to have conversations not just with dialogue but with silences.

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.

Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.

In theater, what I loved were wordless plays and working in silence.

Modeling is really silent acting.

You can't be silent and create silence in being silent. So you have to create silence or, rather, the effect of silence, through words.

In a silent film, you speak but the audience does not hear you.

As much as movies are about the words that you're saying, they're also about what's not said, the silent moments.

I love some films with very silent characters, people who don't speak, but I wouldn't be able to do that.

I hate this idea in the Cinematheque that you must watch silent movies with no music, like it's a piece of art. It's not true.

Silent films weren't so different from my comics - the basic choice both offer an artist is what do you show and what do you tell.

When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.

We always describe a piece as 'really lively' where it seems the work dances off the paper or the silk. Art has to hit you on an emotional level rather than just the analytical.

I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply. It's silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a truth to be found.

A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.