Quotes About Interpretation

No word is capable of carrying the impulses one wants to send with it.

The composer does not want the self-sufficiency of a richly complex text: he or she wants to feel that the text is something in need of musical setting.

Accessible music is much harder. I could throw out the other kind of albums with my eyes closed. I wouldn't belittle those who want to do the Tricky thing, but it does make me wonder sometimes.

Every actor just wants good writing.

On an emotional level, I don't want to be a guide. I want people to hear things and experience them their own way.

This is what I love to do. I love to perform for people that get it or just want something interesting.

I never believe I'm presenting objective reality; I also don't want to delude people into thinking that my subject is talking directly to them.

My attitude is, I am not a lawyer; I am not a doctor; I am not a scientist. I am a filmmaker and I want to present what each side is saying and let the viewer come to their own conclusion.

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

If you're reading a comic strip, you can read it at any speed you want. But with film and music, the audience has to take it the way the composer gives it.

What you realize is that a lot of actors want to be directed. They're there to do the best job they can for the director. They have a lot of questions, and your job is to have answers.

When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.

I can critique the bad; I can take the good, and I can add whatever I want.

I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is not a thing that you can nail down and use as you want. You have to let it use you, too.

Many times, when a director reads a script and wants somebody who says 'Far out', then they let me do what I want with it and that's usually more interesting for an actor.

I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.

If people want to talk about anything I do, they can give it any name they want. As long as they're talking about it, I think it's great.

One of the things about comics is people can linger on images and words as long as they want.

My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

People want movies to be one thing or another; they want it be fact or fiction.

When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.

The camera is your way to see what you want to see - it's an extension of the director's fantasy. I'm executing my personal fantasy, whether it's a fantasy of pleasure or of pain and fear.

I like to invent the dialogue that I want to have heard.