Quotes About Interpretation

When you use the language of 'fact checking' to talk about a film, I think you're sort of fundamentally misunderstanding how art works. You don't fact check Monet's 'Water Lilies.' That's not what water lilies look like; that's what the sensation of experiencing water lilies feel like. That's the goal of the piece.

Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.

My quenelle was very misunderstood.

I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood.

It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.

I have always been communicative. I can't help it if I have been misunderstood. Sometimes, people don't like straight answers.

I do like how the music can be misunderstood.

I think I'm a director that is very easily misunderstood.

I don't think words always lead to meaning, but the things you can create with them are still pretty amazing. I've been really into Joni Mitchell, for example, but I've also been into some studio stuff, like Bjork.

When you hear 'I Luv U,' that's me doing Three 6 Mafia. That actual track is a mix of 'What's Your Fantasy?' by Ludacris and 'Is That Yo Chick?' by Jay Z. That's my version of that track.

You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.

I think that's kind of the perfect mix, where you do something that you're not sure about, you feel like you're taking a risk, and then you turn around and look at the artists that you're collaborating with and you can read the expression on their face if they like it or they hate it.

I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.

I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse. The art world is filled with vibrancy.

I had several different bosses during the early years of 'Dilbert.' They were all pretty sure I was mocking someone else.

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

Artwork operates on two different levels: On one level, there's artwork as a mode of expressivity, and then there's the other side, where the image is a construction that is meant to engage in a discursive field in order to perform a particular function.

When you have an idea for a work and when you've finished your model for it, for the artist it's almost complete, in a way. But then bringing it to the finish is really something you do for the audience. It is always exciting.

Modelling, for me, I find that it's like acting.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.

When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that art is most likely to be occurring.

If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I don't know.

Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.