Quotes About Interpretation

Well, the hard part about doing auditions is that the person reading you the lines, they're not really into it. They're just going, 'Oh really, so why do you think that?' And they're just looking at a piece of paper.

I'm very much of the opinion that theatre is a collective art form, not just one person's vision.

For me, what people generally call sound design is just one component of orchestrating a score.

Most of my acting in general is about what's going on in the head, and the lines are just something that comes out.

People are affected by what they see, hear. This is what matters to me the most because then our job as actors is justified.

I can pretty much justify anything as work if I'm reading the news or whatever.

I always need a reason to do something on stage, for me. I am not judging anyone: there is not a good way; there is not a bad way. You just have to justify everything.

I've never been that keen on Shakespeare.

I was keen to stage 'Faust,' although I find Goethe's 'Faust' indigestible.

The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.

I don't want a headline saying 'Kennedy suggests this or implies that.'

Kenny Lonergan, as a filmmaker, doesn't tell stories so much as he observes them, which is to say, his films don't come pre-digested. You have to bring your own enzymes. It's a more gripping and challenging experience.

Everything that I write about is a kernel of something that probably happened to me or one of my writers that I've co-opted and made it seem like it's mine.

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

There's a clip where he had someone miming me running around from keyboard to keyboard. Oh dear, I am sure a lot of people didn't know what he was going on about.

For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.

I love working with Alicia Keys, because it's not just the ability to do the dance to me; I think it's the ability to interpret it that excites me the most.

I realize judges don't understand what the hell kicks are doing.

I create art. It's kinda abstract.

I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.

I feel a kinship to the idea of beloved stories and beloved pieces of art that we can imagine in different ways and sort of take a meta approach in terms of what those stories offer us.

I don't feel like I've ever kissed any of the people I have done for acting. That moment didn't exist for you; it existed for that person.

Whenever I read a script, I don't differentiate between a kissing scene or an emotional scene.

I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.