Quotes About Interpretation

Some actors are what I call more like mirror actors, which means that they do a performance at home in front of the mirror, and then they go deliver it. I'm not that type.

I think the job of art and drama is to hold a mirror up to those things and say, 'What do you think about it?'

I love when people mirror themselves in my music, and I think that's the whole point of it - not telling people what it is or how they're supposed to feel... but you having a relationship with my song makes it real to me.

I read one too many books about Joy Division by people who weren't there, and they always seem to dwell on the dark, the intense, the miserable image of Joy Division.

Laurel Canyon and Dawes have become linked in a way that I think is misguided, frankly, to tell a new fan what we sound like. But at one point maybe it wasn't.

Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.

A lot of things get misinterpreted with me, I guess.

The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.

I hate seeing myself misquoted.

I'm very used to being misquoted.

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.

So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

Melodrama and melodramatic are not the same thing, and often people make the mistake of confusing the two.

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

An artist who goes around proclaiming that the art he's making is art is probably making a serious mistake. And that's one mistake I try not to make.

People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other.

People misunderstand me.

You always risk people misunderstanding you when you say anything.

My biggest concern is people misunderstanding me.

So many great ideas come out of a misunderstanding.

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?