Quotes About Interpretation

No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the maintenance of his opinion.

I'm used to changing a lot of the dialogue. But if I feel like the script is working, I don't want to mess with it.

Anytime you create art, you create a mess. I mean, 'Hamlet' is a mess!

I'm very conscious that I want the dance audience to respond and respect what I'm doing, so I'm always very true to the music and I honour the music in the way I see it - I don't mess around with the music.

'Coriolanus' has been around for 400 years, and it's going to be around for another 400 years, and nothing I can do is going to mess it up. So, going into it, I felt sort of very free to look at it as a filmmaker does.

You can control and censor a child's reading, but you can't control her interpretations; no one can guess how a message that to adults seems banal or ridiculous or outmoded will alter itself and evolve inside the darkness of a child's heart.

I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.

I can use movie as a language. Not only could it send a good message, I could let people know about my thinking and how I see the world, how I see the colour, how I see the music, how I see everything.

When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things.

No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

I try not to look for messages in films.

You shouldn't listen to my music for political messages.

I'm not sure I necessarily have explicit messages.

When I write, I don't think about messages for my readers.

If you're really listening there are alot of hidden messages in my songs.

It's incredible, but I think a lot of people it shot over their heads 'cause they're used to just getting images and messing around with them, and for us to do something quite so 'designed' was a bit of a shock.

There are certain songs that are sacred. People want to hear them just as they are in their head; they don't want you messing around with them. And then there are some other songs, if they've been around a long time in our set list, that I think we can take some creative liberties with.

The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering.

I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have.

I'm not Christian. I didn't meet Jesus. I met something that looked like it had come out of a 'Heavy Metal' comic.

Science is all metaphor.

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.