Personal Interpretation Quotes

None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.

Every book is a unique experience.

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

I've always maintained that I don't think comedy should be reviewed. I think it's un-reviewable, because it is so subjective.

Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences.

What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't know that that's not necessarily the way it really is. It feels so real.

There are three sides to every story: my side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently.

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it.

If I write a fantastic story, I'm not writing something willful. On the contrary, I am writing something that stands for my feelings, or for my thoughts. So that, in a sense, a fantastic story is as real and perhaps more real than a mere circumstantial story. Because after all, circumstances come and go, and symbols remain.

Every story you tell is your own story.

It's very strange when people get so focused on what a song means, what actual events inspired a song. That gets people really excited for some reason... But that's what's great about music - however people interpret it, whatever they see, is what I want to be there for them.

It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

Crying is personal. On the other hand, laughing is more general . Laughing makes our hearts wider.

The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would ever see the universe exactly the same way any other of us saw it.

Why I love acting is that it's totally subjective and I like that. I like that.

While truth is ultimately convergent, beauty is ultimately divergent. No one can and no one should tell anyone else what that person should consider beautiful.

I really approached the film as if it was a white big piece of paper and I was going to draw a picture on it. And whether that picture was good or bad, whatever people thought of it, what they could never take away was that it was my picture.

Everyone always asks me who my muse is, or who's the girl I have in mind, which is such a hard question for me to answer because I feel like it's a sensibility that varies for each individual.

My poems mean what people take them to mean.

The claim that everybody sees the world differently is not a claim that there's no reality. It's a different kind of claim.

For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.

You know, like when you look in the mirror and the thing you see is not the thing as it really is.