Quotes About Interpretation

Everything in the world can be pictured, but a picture cannot represent its own pictorial form; this has to be shown rather than said.

Communist interpretation is never wrong. Logicians will object in vain that a theory which exempts itself from all refutations escapes from the order of truth.

This idea is fraught with peril, and I fear that my answers to your questions will be interpreted as approval rather than reluctant assistance.

we each construct our own reality by interpreting the external world on the basis of our unique experiences with it and our beliefs about those experiences.

Over a billion people out there, worshipping these writings, accepting every word as God's own wisdom, slaughtering each other over them, and all of it without having the vaguest notion of where these scriptures really come from.

There are two billion Christians out there, Sean, and a lot of them think of the Bible as God's words. His actual words. They think the twenty-seven texts that make up the New Testament were handed down to us by God himself, to help us lead better lives and achieve eternal salvation. They don't realize that nothing could be farther from the truth and that what we call the Bible was actually

Intentionality highlights the mystery of what brains are, ultimately, supposed to do; namely, to make other items, indeed worlds, appear to someone.

The events in computers do not amount to genuine understanding. Indeed, given that symbols are symbols only to someone who understands that they are symbols, events in computers considered in isolation from conscious human beings do not even amount to the processing of symbols. There is merely the passage of minute electric currents along circuits which may or may not cause other physical events to happen, such as the lighting up of a screen in a certain pattern.

There are two sides to every story but only one truth.

perpetual pain, or ecstasy, depending on one's point of view. Josie

Some of the greatest films and television have only been seen by the people that make them. And some of the greatest music is only heard by the people who make it.

I don't think it says anywhere in the Bible that tithing should be calculated on a before-tax basis.

Any nude is a something you setup in front of the camera.

In front of the camera I look and I see visually what I've created.

There's something inimical about the camera and song.

It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

When I do an editorial or when I do a campaign, I bring that lens to every space.

I don't like to believe in canon.

I know what I am capable of. I read a character, and if I can say to myself, 'I know this woman,' then I take the role.

People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.

Performance capture, for me, is finding the essence of a performance.

I come from theater and captured theater has a bad rap of being never what the live performance was.

I think a caricature is different than a character.

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.