Quotes About Interpretation

It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.

Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.

Our job as actors is to invent the things that bridge ourselves with the characters, so you have to build something if it's not there - you try and learn what makes people behave in a certain way.

In fiction, you don't invent the events. What is imaginative about it is the consciousness: how you think about the events and how you present them. And that changes the nature of everything, and that is the attraction of writing fiction.

You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

I enjoy the inventive ways in which language is manipulated to make meaning.

Acting with someone else, I can't tell how good they are because if I'm doing my job right, I'm just fully invested in everything that person's saying.

If I'm not invested emotionally, the artwork doesn't feel emotional.

I don't investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me.

The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.

I don't have to spend a lot of time figuring out, 'Gosh, I wonder how guys feel,' because most every piece of art I look at invites me into that experience.

Films should involve a director's idiosyncrasies as much as possible I think.

Trying to be a good actor has to be involved with placing yourself imaginatively in different people's circumstances.

I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.

The goal of art is to inspire people to look inward.

For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.

Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced.

People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn't have, seeing as it's being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.

It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't.

Political analysts tend to overinterpret the results of isolated elections.

In Israel, if a person doesn't agree with you, she just says no. In Alabama, someone would say, 'I'll think about it.' We would take that literally. So, if you ask for a favor and someone says they'll think about it, they're really not thinking about it.

People misinterpret my lyrics sometimes too, but I mean, it is what it is.

You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I don't think it's art. I just think it's music. It is what it is.