Interpretation Process Quotes

Any film that exists that is thorough, you can't give it to an audience of one and have that be effective communication. Communication involves an audience of many that have a conversation, put it through the ringer, filter it and then a sense of it coalesces.

Deciding what is being talked about is a kind of interpretive bet.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.

To work with Kaz on this kind of project is a fascinating process...He seems to be Dogen himself when offering the translations that we Western collaborators then refine with him.

Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.

The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.

Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate.

We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text is a transaction between the reader and the text, which mediates the encounter between the reader and writer. It is a composition between the reader and the writer in which the reader "rewrites" the text making a determined effort not to betray the author's spirit.

Constitutional interpretation ... is a process of holding an actual government within certain bounds.