Quotes About Interpretation

If you're going to be adapting something across media, you should at least have the moves that people want you to hit and that you want to hit.

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write. I think Charlize Theron would make a lovely Marie Antoinette.

That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false. They're real story elements that the filmmakers were hoping to introduce to the audience in a darkened movie theater.

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.

When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.

Everybody has their own answer of what a catch should be. I say, secure the ball; if the ball is not moving, it's a dead ball, simple as that.

I love Mozart, but I often make a terrible hash of it.

If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that.

As many times as I have done 'Marriage of Figaro,' I have never been able to ask Mozart what he intended in this piece.

If you've never heard a piece of Mozart, then Mozart could sound scary or confusing, so it's all about learning.

I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films.

I thought 'Mud' would be such an easy film for people to understand.

Part of my style was getting into a muddle. Audiences think that's part of the act. Sometimes it might be - but you have to guess which bits.

People said my records were 'funky' and 'muddy,' but the truth is they were just demos.

It's fun as a creator to make something that allows multiple interpretations.

I've kind of gotten mad over the years, reading different Punisher stories and seeing multiple Punisher movies. Nobody gets the character right.

Everytime I read a script now, I am able to imagine my character in multiple ways, which I present to the director or the writer, and we take it on from there.

There are some kinds of Christianity that insist you have to believe literally in doctrine. The Gnostic gospels open out the complexity and multiplicity of approaches to this. If you think the story of the virgin birth is mistranslated, for instance, it doesn't mean you have to throw out the whole thing.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

I never know if I'm the builder or architect. The role shifts all the time. But what I have come to conclude is that the script is the muse.

All actors are muses for their directors.

Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else?