Quotes About Interpretation

I'm bilingual. I speak English and Spanish.

I work a lot on words, so if I hear a word or see a word or a phrase or a sentence that someone says to me it just immediately sparks a concept.

'Ruby Sparks' has been sold like a romcom in the States. But we never saw it like that.

Every Sparks album is a new album when it's the first one you're hearing.

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.

A dubbing artiste does a lot of repair work for an artiste who doesn't naturally speak the language they are acting in.

Facts do not speak.

You who speak languages, you are such liars.

To choose to be silent in any scene sometimes has more notes in my script than when you chose to speak.

The long history of conversations that family members share contributes not only to how listeners interpret words but also to how speakers choose them.

Generally speaking, the Smritikars never care to explain the why and the how of their dogmas.

She said, and I'm not kidding, 'Is this a speaking role?' I wasn't quite sure how to answer that one.

I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white - I like the abstraction of it.

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced.

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.

The auctioneer is talking for both people, and that's the big revelation about, 'Oh, that's what they're doing.' They're just doing it very fast, so you could kind of miss on that. He's speaking for you, because people in the crowd don't have a voice, so that's what really makes it compelling.

Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in your brain is, that's going on under the lines. It doesn't matter whether you're speaking or not speaking because your mind is working the way your character's mind would work.

I believe that poems are a score for performance by the reader, and that you become the speaking voice. You don't read or overhear the voice in the poem - you are the voice in the poem.

I developed a definition - which I think becomes less and less accurate as poetry moves into the world - that poetry was a way of speaking to the world, but fiction was a way to get the world to speak to me.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

I've come to learn that music speaks for itself.