Quotes About Interpretation

There's definitely a delicate line you have to walk in telling someone else's story that's not quite as delicate in telling your own story. I think when I'm working on a personal story, there's less pressure to try to get it exactly right.

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another... What's funny to you is a personal thing.

A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture - the feelings, the brushstrokes - more than describing somebody. People latch on to the personalities when they talk about my work and forget the other parts.

I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.

People read way too much into personalities and all that stuff.

The floor exercise is a way to express your personality.

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area.

No two persons ever read the same book.

Some persons never attain to the happy art of perspicuous expression, and it is equally true that some persons, thro' a mental defect of their own, will judge the most correct and certain language of others to be indefinite and ambiguous.

It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation.

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'

Everyone's going to have their own experience and perspective on everything.

I look at this game from a different perspective.

I think perspective is a necessary, amazing thing.

Everyone sees drama from his own perspective.

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

Things definitely got out of perspective.

Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

Sometimes I make songs about girls, and I say 'he,' or I'll make songs about guys, and I say 'she,' or sometimes they're exactly what they're about. I feel like it just allows me to get a lot more perspective.