Quotes About Interpretation

It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.

We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.

Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.

I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.

The best thing for an actor is to try it his way. The way they do it may not work, but it may inspire me to try something else.

A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.

One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.

If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.

I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.

What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.

When I hear something new, mostly in rhythms, I often find it interesting to recreate it in a studio in a completely different way.

My problem is: as a singer and a dancer, if I get it in my body one way, it is harder for me to be open to something new - to something else; to something that is really organically connected to the piece and not just to my perception of it.

Everything I've wanted to turn into a film becomes something new and different when it becomes a movie... Each time I work with an author, I say to them, 'A book and a movie are different things.'

The films I love are very precise, and every shot means something; every shot should convey something new.

When you're on Broadway, what's kind of the whole point is that you find something new in the show each night.

I like it when actors offer something new with their performances, and elevate the scene. I don't restrict an actor.

Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side.

This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music.

There is something special about being an actor and able to bring somebody's visualisation - director, storywriter and script writer - into life. It is almost like creating a person.

Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

The thing I loved about Alfred Hitchcock is that he left a lot of open ends there, a lot of clues that didn't really add up the way you think they would, and sometimes, not at all.

A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.