Quotes About Interpretation

What information you see doesn't dictate what you think or believe. I think it's crazy to think that.

People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.

I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time I see it as very informed by that.

I did have a lot of years watching and appreciating dance and theater and all of those kind of things, and it has informed the way that I work with actors and the way I approach things.

As artists, we can't help but infuse our art with our own experience, so your experience becomes informative.

The difference with me is that I did inhale.

High malice is almost inherent in the profession of historian.

Music is never inherently funny!

Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

Many film scores try to force an emotion into a story that inherently is not there in the first place.

To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast. You go over the initial script with them and listen to the way they talk. Then you try to do a rewrite to accommodate them.

Initially, I wanted to be a writer for other people. 'Hereditary,' I was writing it from a woman's perspective.

As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist.

I'm definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely love input from my directors and my writers.

It's strange not to allow the actor some input and breathing room into what was written on the page - it is their job to make it come alive.

An artiste's input, her ability to create dimensions within the given space is very important.

I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.

You know what's funny is, when I made 'Saw,' I got accused of being a fascist; when I made 'Insidious,' I got accused of being godless, and now I made the 'Conjuring' films, and I'm accused of being too much God.

What's funny is, when I made 'Saw,' I got accused of being a fascist, when I made 'Insidious,' I got accused of being godless, and now I made the 'Conjuring' films, and I'm accused of being too much God.

I like to tell my own story using my personality and my insight, the way I see things.

While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.

No design, no matter how common or seemingly insignificant, is without its adamant critics as well as its ardent admirers.

I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.