Quotes About Interpretation

Storyboards augment the scenario, expand on its intent, and exist to be analyzed and eventually revised.

las historias, llevadas a término, son exploraciones de los limites de la legitimidad.

The genres were Romance in Michelet, Comedy in Ranke, Tragedy in Tocqueville, and Satire in Burckhardt.

Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.

When I read, I was a philosopher and it was up to me to figure out the meaning of things. Reading made me feel as if I were the center of the universe.

There was a painting of Jesus rolling his eyes up at the sky in every room.

It was technological and black and thin and therefore Evil, but... it was also a book.

What about you, this week? First you completely ignore me like some Hitler Youth ice-maiden, then you turn into an irresistible sex kitten, looking at me over the computer with not so much 'come-to-bed' as just 'come' eyes, and now suddenly you're Jeremy Paxman." We

Painting will help your photography," she said. "It will put you in touch with your feelings.

our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive heart.

Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

It is an unspeakable boon to me to be able to speak in winged words that need no interpretation.

Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world.

Writing about 'What is art?' is not something I ever thought I'd be doing.

I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And that's as far as it goes. Because I will simultaneously read a review where somebody says, 'Oh my God, I had so much fun reading this book and I learned so much.'

All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who writes for theatre. I do not see film work as a continuation of writing for theatre. It is more of an interruption of the writing process.

The writing process for us is different with every song. Sometimes they come from our lives, or someone else we know may be going through something that we choose to write about.

Weirdly, the past starts to be about something else. It becomes about style in a way that it wasn't about, and I don't mean writing style, but cultural style.