Quotes About Interpretation

How can you judge one film against another?

Music should be judged on what you hear, not what you think you might hear.

Football is wonderful because everyone can have an opinion and make judgements about what they think and see.

We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.

The best way to have empathy for people and the best way to have empathy for our Constitution is to appoint judges who will rule based on the law and to have empathy, if you will, for the law only and to rule based on the law.

The president appoints the judges. Your lives and your children's lives can change by all of these appellate court judges who will be appointed who will reinterpret laws, and things can change.

I don't have any respect for judges who arrive at the result first, and then try to figure out some way they can bend the law to reach their particular predilections.

Our role as judges is to interpret the law.

I can't play a character that I am judging.

If you are playing someone living, it is a different type of judgment. However much work you do, it is not a documentary. There will be things you can't get right, and ultimately, you have to take a leap because - you weren't there.

I don't have a problem if someone else were to say that one of my characters is a good one and another one is not and is a bad one. I try myself not to have any judgment towards my characters, but certainly the audience might.

I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's the craft.

If you look at most women's writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writer's description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. They're looking for certain things, because they know what women do to look a certain way.

We have a problem with judicial activism in this country.

If judicial review means anything, it is that judicial restraint does not allow everything.

The judiciary is entitled to finally resolve a dispute. Not every decision is right.

I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.

It's the coolest part about writing music. I don't know how other people work, but so much is derived from some amalgamation of all these different songs that I love. That's why they jump all over the place.

Cats can't understand English, so you tell a cat, 'Come on. Jump on the bed,' and he just looks at you like, 'What are you talking about?'

When companies are successful or not successful, they almost immediately jump to the wrong conclusions about how they got there or why they got there.

When I get a new script my mom will read them and just be aghast. I think it's hysterical.

Nothing's ever allowed to just be entertaining. We have to talk about it.

Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there's a point where I wish that it wasn't, just because I think the score would be more effective if there was less of it. But, again, that's not my call.

I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.