Quotes About Interpretation

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly.

People think a big camera and big lighting will make art, and I want to break that rule. If you have a great concept, it can be art.

It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feeling that I get from all this. I think that we are succeeding. The feedback is very warm.

You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.

As an actor, I feel like I'm somebody who, when somebody gives me a mark, I don't want to hit it. I don't like that. But then, without even knowing it, I just hit it.

The reason artists want to have works in museums is that we want our works to be seen by as many people as possible and we want our ideas to be understood in more complicated ways.

There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.

I like a lot of talk in a book and I don't like to have nobody tell me what the guy that's talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.

I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.

By itself, 1 Corinthians 15 just wouldn't mean much. He wants the appearances of 1 Corinthians 15:3-11 to be read as if they had in parentheses after them 'See Luke 24; Matthew 28; John 21.'

People get out of music what they want to get out of it, and all I try to do is do the same thing.

Sometimes you want to use the music in a clarity way to explain something in the film.

I dream about my teeth, losing a tooth, which I think means that you want control back.

What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts.

I think what's fun about the fairytales is just seeing what everybody interprets them as, which comes from the different directors and what they want to do with them.

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you cant possibly please everyone.

You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.

What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.

Draw and paint the subject the way you want it to be, not as it is.

A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.