Quotes About Interpretation

Some people see what they want to see.

I'm not a traditional sonero, at least not in the way they want me to be, I'm an interpreter, and I reach people in a different level.

A Healing Dream can never be completely "interpreted," or fully understood. Healing Dreams want us to stop making sense; not just to crack the case, but to enter the mystery.

Nothing will enrich your life as much as the appreciation of art. If you want to 'Live Rich', you have to - absolutely have to - include art in your life.

The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it.

Most people see what they want to, or at least what they expect to.

Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood, don't write fiction.

What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them, attack them. Prose poems are natural fence-sitters.

If you're working with a director you trust, you can turn that part of you off that wants to direct other actors in a certain way.

I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.

Hollywood would much prefer the author be dead, so that they can buy the book and do what they want to do with it.

It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of.

Many Muslims may not seek to kill the infidel, but they don't want to condemn those carrying out the holy book command.

Evolutionary biology is crazy because sometimes it seems anybody can draw any conclusion they want.

A huge portion of Trump voters are incredibly pleased with how he's performing. They see what they want to see.

I sing 'All Apologies' with my own lyrics. People want to sing along, but then, oops, they realize it's a different story.

My object when writing prose is to write as clearly as possible. I think I know what I'm saying in prose, and I want others to understand it and to be able to restate it.

History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

Never asking a direct question, even though the other person can guess what it is you want to know.

The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.

I am at war with the obvious.

George Lucas should have distributed the 'source code' to Star Wars. Millions of fans would create their own movies and stories. Most of them would be terrible, but a few would be genius.

Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.