Quotes About Interpretation

It annoys me when people can't differentiate between the character and the actor, which is a little bit silly.

Some very silly songs can have an almost melancholy feeling when you put it in a different perspective.

All great scripts need not reach silver screen, and every good story can't be narrated in a 2-hour film.

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's not an art form as far as I'm concerned, and yet it's a similar thing, once you can't land those jumps, you're disqualified - that precludes it from ever becoming a serious art form.

When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don't usually come up with a similar kind of thing.

Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.

The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.

In a very real sense, Jews have to believe that Christians have missed the point about how to wait for the end, and Christians have to believe something quite similar about the Jews.

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

I love Nicolas de Stael particularly, and my work can remind people of him. But looked at attentively, our works are not similar at all.

Sometimes it's hard to play someone so similar to you, because you can muddy the character. Often, it's easier to play someone further away from you, because it's clearer who they are.

Acting is very similar to modeling.

I let people draw their own conclusions about my similarities to Dale Sr.

The similarity between the big directors I've worked with is that they allow the writer to find a way of doing what they want done without saying 'do it this way.' They describe what they want, then letting the writer figure out a way to do it.

I've seen so many excellent actors - excellent actors - who, the minute they're told they're in a comedy, turn into God knows what - creatures from another planet! I mean they just... the voice changes, they don't look the same, it's like - it has no similarity to any living human being, do you know what I mean?

You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.

I love live theater. I get my rocks off by doing stand-up, and I am the only actor. But to show up eight times a week and not have that time for myself; to do someone else's lines? When I work for Wendy Wasserstein or Terrence McNally, Neil Simon or even Shakespeare, I do not have the right to change the lines.

When I was working on 'Night Falls Over Kortedala,' I was listening a lot to 'Graceland,' the Paul Simon record. I really got into the lyrics on that album. The opening line is so brilliant, the way he sets the scene.

The body's like a huge ear. It's as simple as that.

I'm a real simple person. I believe that the Bible means what it says, and says what it means.

I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.

Doing film and television demands a kind of simplicity. If you think something differently, the camera will pick it up.