Quotes About Interpretation

Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.

Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.

We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.

I never think in metaphors or fully make those kind of associations myself. I just lay down a complex situation and hope things arise from that.

There are two schools of thought: There are those actors who explain to you that they know exactly how they're going to do the part... And then there is the other method, which is to have no method at all. This is mine.

Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting.

I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.

I am proud to say I'm a director's composer. People do method acting, I do method composing. I like to get into the skin of the character and go deep into the director's vision.

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

I'm not a method actor. I try to stay separate but to imagine what they'd feel, to put myself in their shoes.

Every actor comes with their own experience, method, methodology.

Languages are true analytical methods.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history is. You're looking at something very closely, and you try to write in a meticulous way about it.

Michael C. Hall is an incredibly detailed actor who can convey so much with just an eyebrow.

You're never going to improve on a Michael Jackson song if you cover it.

I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.

I never looked up what a Midwestern accent was; I just did a very generic one.

A critic is not a creative artist, is a commenter, a midwife of creativity, but not creative himself.

I often draw from people in my own experience to base a character on, going back to my days with Mike Leigh.

'Avatar' means so many things to so many different people. When I think of the creation of it, I think of me and Mike at the computer in a little apartment in Burbank.

I said from the start I had to be trustful of the Millennium universe. It was not going to be a Stieg Larsson book, but my interpretation of his iconic characters and universe.

All these directors who do different locations forget that one room can be shot from a million different angles and a million different ways. When I direct a movie, I'm going to use that.