Quotes About Interpretation

Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character.

I've read the 'Book of Revelation' a million times. It does not make sense, obviously. It needs to be decoded.

I've been told that some guy wrote something like, 'Andy Serkis does everything, animators do nothing.' Of course I never in a million years said that, wouldn't ever say that. It's not within my understanding of filmmaking to ever say anything like that.

The question is - did Richard Attenborough have a right to make 'Gandhi?' And did Danny Boyle have a right to make 'Slumdog Millionaire?' Quite honestly, if they didn't have the right to make these films, I had no right to make 'Elizabeth.'

If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

It's always a good idea to let the audience make up their own minds.

To get into another person's mindset and what they are trying to do with their project is a challenge, and it is what I like.

For me, as an actress, you are playing a character, and to play that character, you have to get into that mindset.

When I was working on 'To Pimp A Butterfly' and 'DAMN.,' I'm really making music for Kendrick. It's a different mindset than when I'm making music for me. I'm trying to get into his head and figure out what he wants because it's his vision. That's what I expect from people when they're playing on my records.

In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous.

When the first 'Hellboy' series came out, in the same batch of fan mail I got a letter from somebody from the Church of Satan, and I got a letter from a minister, and they both liked it. And I thought, 'What am I doing that I'm making both these guys happy?'

Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.

From Shakespeare to Robi Thakur, everyone has written stories about people and incidents around them. There is no creativity minus reality irrespective of how flowery or abstract you make it.

My films are like clouds: their meaning keeps changing every minute.

The Buddha said many times, "My teaching is like a finger pointing to the moon. Do not mistake the finger for the moon.

for one hundred years people have believed that the 1886 case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad did in fact conclude that "corporations are persons." But this book will show that the Court never stated this: it was added by the court reporter who wrote the introduction to the decision, a commentary called a headnote.

Oft lese ich ganze Seiten und weiß gar nicht, was ich gelesen habe. Ich fange dann noch einmal von vorn an und entdecke, daß das schön ist, was ich gelesen habe. Es handelt von Menschen, die unglücklich sind.

Todo totalmente distinto. Porque lo anotado no es exacto. Nada de lo que se anota es exacto. No puede pretender nada. Ni siquiera precisión, aunque todo se consigne según el leal saber y entender, pensando saber algo sobre un asunto totalmente cierto. Siempre será, en el mejor de los casos, menos falso. Pero falso. Distinto. Por consiguiente, no verdadero.

Wehe, Sie lesen eindringlicher, Sie ruinieren sich alles, was Sie lesen. Es ist ganz gleich, was Sie lesen, es wird am Ende lächerlich und ist am Ende nichts wert. Hüten Sie sich vor dem Eindringen in Kunstwerke, sagte er, Sie verderben sich alles und jedes, selbst das Geliebteste.

for everyone says something repeatedly and is misunderstood, this is the only point where everybody understands everybody else, he said, I thought. One

myself. We constantly portray and judge people only in false terms, we judge them unjustly and portray them meanly, I said to myself, in every instance, no matter how we portray, no matter how we judge them. Such

In brief, where the Scripture is silent, the church is my text; where that speaks, 'tis but my comment; where there is a joint silence of both, I borrow not the rules of my religion from Rome or Geneva, but the dictates of my own reason.

we accept fictions as fictions, as things that might be true in their world, if not quite in ours.