Quotes About Interpretation

Less Than Zero and American Psycho were both really different, so I was just like, Okay, he's just really doesn't have anything pleasant to say, you know? But I get it. I get at least why it's difficult and what he's really doing.

To me, the zombies have always just been zombies. They've always been a cigar. When I first made 'Night of the Living Dead,' it got analyzed and overanalyzed way out of proportion. The zombies were written about as if they represented Nixon's Silent Majority or whatever. But I never thought about it that way.

Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it's funny. You're just sitting there like, 'Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?' It's such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy.

If you're a photographer, they give you a camera. If you're a writer, they give you a typewriter. If you're an umpire, they give you an unseen object and they call it a strike zone, and nobody seems to agree with you no matter what you call.

The type of thing that one person would get mad at, another person would laugh at, is a good kind of zone to be in.

The strike zone should be what the rule book says it is and not a personal idiosyncrasy.

It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans.

With tough interpretation of taxi and zoning regulations, neither Uber nor Airbnb would have gotten started. By the time many cities recognized their existence, both were fairly large and had the political support of their customers.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and the rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words, we are continually changing the score.

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

Many plays, certainly mine, are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

Through the picture, I see reality. Through the word, I understand it.

The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.

The body says what words cannot.

Dancing is the body made poetic.

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

Every story has three sides to it - yours, mine and the facts.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Art is a human activity, consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of external signs, hands on to others feelings he has worked through, and other people are infected by these feelings and also experience them.