Ernst Lubitsch Quotes

The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.

Everybody in this public arena makes statements and gets interpreted different ways.

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

If you hear the question wrong, you will answer wrong.

A lot of things get misinterpreted with me, I guess.

We have to realize that when we talk in front of other people about things only we can understand, those people will not be able to avoid getting wrong impressions.

My films are misinterpreted all the time. I don't mind that. Everybody's films are misinterpreted. But there's no malice or stupidity in the people that misinterpret them. You know what you do, but someone else sees it, and they want to talk about it or write about it, and so they misinterpret them.

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.

Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

I do like to wrap things up and leave some things to the readers' imagination.

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

The funny thing is the songs that people think are about me probably aren't. And the songs that are probably are the ones they wouldn't think... so that's where it kind of is funny.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

I love when people get songs wrong. I love when people take something from a song that's totally not what I intended!

People read things into my commercials that don't even exist.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.

Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name.

All good art, to me, is uncertainty.

People misinterpret what I say all the time: They think I'm being offensive, when really, I'm only being opinionated.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.