Quotes About Interpretation

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.

If you give an actor a green screen, the shot may work, but that green screen will not inspire you on the set as a director or as an actor.

I would say films inspire me more than the makers.

Works of art inspire me to compose.

It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character.

I'm sure that the meaning of the songs that I've written will change for me over the years, the same way that I can't even say what inspired some of the songs that I've been singing for a long time anymore.

I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.

Great art inspires great art.

To understand a field, you look at its arts. Arts can be cautionary as well as inspiring.

What I learned from doing 'The Graduate' was it doesn't matter what the medium is... as long as the material is inspiring and the characters are well written.

Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'

We actually form the world at every instant, although we're not cognitively aware of that but - and there are people would argue with that to some degree.

I instantly connect to certain characters and scripts.

Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.

I don't want to feel like an ambulance chaser, but very often, when I hear about a fire, my first instinct is to make a piece of art out of it.

As an actor, the only thing you have is your instinct and your imagination.

I don't really approach any part in any particular way. I tend to get an instinct on the way I want to do it, depending on that role.

Basic Instinct 2' is camp, not because it takes itself too seriously, nor because it sends itself up, but because we are not sure quite how seriously it wants us to take it.

I certainly always do draw upon stuff in my life. You do that instinctively as an actor.

I am completely a director's actor. If the director gives me the liberty and freedom, then I give my inputs. Otherwise, I just follow instructions.

With each individual, everybody takes instructions in a different way.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.