Quotes About Interpretation

It's easier to go from theatre to film than the other way round. In film you're absolutely loved and cossetted and cared for. In film your director makes your performance. In theatre you're carrying it all.

For one person, Haydn is most exciting. Or Bach is the most exciting. For another, it's Carter or Strauss. For me - and for any musician - all of the music is exciting. And if you don't approach it with excitement, we can't be musicians.

Even if you're drawing a cartoon and exaggerating, you want to capture something true about the person.

If you're a balanced cartoonist, you're not a cartoonist. You definitely have to have a bias.

If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.

As a cartoonist, I'm a caricaturist. First you find out what somebody really looks like, and then you find out what they 'really' look like.

I was a really big fan of cartoons growing up, and I loved to read too much into them most of the time.

I always look at people and think how I would cast them.

As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book.

I'll write a character with a certain actor in mind, but then once I start casting, I have to forget about who I pictured.

We have a particular philosophy in the casting room that we don't really tell the actors - the actors tell us.

I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.

I just want people to listen to the music and get something from it, whatever it may be. Whether it's a catchy lyric or a whole situation.

I think people like to have their categories clear. They want to know if it's fiction or fact, biopic or not.

I try to do the story the way I feel the story should be done, and how that folds into whatever larger sorts of categories or questions is really none of my business.

I'm cautious about a lot of words.

My first single was based around the mishearing of the words 'make believe' - 'I thought she said maple leaves.' That kind of stuff is very central to my music and my life.

Over centuries, we have attached too many meanings to religion.

In a play, a few actors perform a few characters, and they need to perform those characters with a certain level of believability so that audiences can actually understand and see them as those characters.

At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.

I am not good at making people understand certain things.

I've got my own style on the guitar, sure, and I play rhythm in a certain way, and I use certain inflections. People have said that to me, and I understand it.

Like, even when I speak, I think I speak the same way I write. I kind of see it a certain way, and it leads me to write it exactly how I'm seeing it.

I often have the feeling that acting is really not difficult, because all I do is I just listen. I just listen. I just listen to what there is. And if there's nothing, then I listen to nothing. If there's a chair, and it's empty, I listen to an empty chair, and I will respond to it.