Quotes About Interpretation

The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent.

To be true to a play, you can't add something that takes away from the author's intent.

I'm a real strong advocate of living up to the intent of the script and follow that as closely as I can.

Criticism is beyond your control and is a collective group of people deciding things about you that may or may not be true. Some critics look for more when there's no need to. They have a dotto-dot picture of me they are intent on filling in.

An actor's job is about putting across the author's intention; I don't think of myself on the same level as a creator.

People get confused when they see my shows, but that isn't the intention. My intention is to destabilize the act of seeing.

I like it when I can hear directly from the writer: what they're seeing, what they're envisioning, and what their intention is.

It's very interesting to see how the music is used, as sometimes you have composed something with a very different intention, and then suddenly you see it connected to something different. For example, it was incredibly strong and beautiful the first time I saw 'This Is England' by Shane Meadows.

If the mean thing is being said with a person who abused malice, then something sounds mean. If something that is considered mean is being said by somebody who has good intentions and has maybe a comedic lack of awareness, then you can get away with a little bit more.

The church is not made up of one person but a whole congregation, and they should be able to interact with art without being told what to think.

My forms are geometric, but they don't interact in a geometric sense. They're just forms that exist everywhere, even if you don't see them.

My writing is a product of how I would interact with things that have happened to me or things that have not happened to me but have happened to somebody else.

I do not want to make art and then try to dictate how people use it, or how people interact with it.

I like interacting with fans, and I like hearing what they say, but you have to take it all with a grain of salt.

When I write plays, I'm already seeing the shapes on stage, of the actors and their interaction, and so on and so forth. I don't think I've ever written one play as an abstract piece, as a literary piece, floating in the air somewhere, to be flushed out later on.

What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its being a good or bad.

Art doesn't interest me. Only artists interest me.

I was always interested in choreography - in making people think and feel something.

I'm always interested in how people use language to not say what they mean.

I'm excited about seeing things, and I'm interested in the way I think other people saw things.

It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd be able to convey more through dialogue.

I live a much more interesting life in other people's minds.

Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.

The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.