Quotes About Interpretation

As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.

People should be free to take whatever they want from music and I think that over time I realized that different people always find different things in my songs, which is really good.

The blind see what they want to see.

If my dog wants to know why I didn't feed him this morning, he may want to rethink walking out of the room when I'm telling him a joke.

If you can see a world within a portrait I would be happy with that. I don't want to tell the story with a painting, though. I'm trying to get away from the story- from the beginning and the ending.

I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well.

As a model you have to convey something with one look - and actors will have a scene and they can sort of do it, but models have to convey what photographers want. It's a bit of an art.

Quite frankly, the bible is filled with advice that you'd never, want to follow. "Don't cut your hair on a rainy Thursday because locusts will eat your farm" kind of thing.

I don't think we should have justices appointed that decide what they want to hear. It's all about the Constitution the way it was meant to be. And those are the people that I will appoint.

I don't think we should have justices appointed that decide what they want to hear.

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

If you hug someone goodbye and their response is what the hell are you doing? - you may want to examine you're definition of close friend.

As an editor, you're constantly dealing with the best way to convey an exchange between two people. So when I'm shooting, I'm just aware in the back of my head what an editor might want.

Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm's length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives.

The idea that a film is created in the editing room - it's only a certain kind of movie that's made in the editing room and it's not one that I really want to see.

The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.

People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said.

I love films where I'm looking around the world a little different now that I've seen that. I want something that nourishes my view of the world.

When you are writing for an artist you are trying to get into that artist's point of view. What does that artist want to say? What do they care about? And musically, you want to show off that artist.

He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.

The simple ones aren't simple. The broken ones aren't broken. They are rearranged.

the all too human need to conjure symbolic meaning from meaningless events.

If we could assemble our words, merge those inside and out, we would be startled to find that we speak but a tenth of what we think. And yet, each of us presumes to expect that the other understands – indeed, hears both the spoken and the unspoken. Mad presumption!

any exchange of words with a woman was fraught with her torturer's array of deadly implements, each one hovering at the very edge of a man's comprehension.