Interpreting Quotes

"There`s nothing wrong with modeling, except that it doesn`t last. I had the stereotype most people have, that it`s stupid, but it wasn`t stupid at all. I loved spending a day with Richard Avedon. People who are so artistic, so intelligent -- you are interpreting what they are trying to express. You have taken a trip into this brain, you are a tourist in this fantastically interesting brain. People always say to me that I do such strange films, but it`s not that I`m looking for something so different necessarily, it`s simply that I meet a person who strikes me as intelligent and interesting and I want to take a trip into their brain."

(on Kurt Cobain, who quoted the Young song "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" in his suicide note) The fact that he left the lyrics to my song right there with him when he killed himself left a profound feeling on me, but I don`t think he was saying I have to kill myself because I don`t want to fade away. I don`t think he was interpreting the song in a negative way. It`s a song about artistic survival, and I think he had a problem with the fact that he thought he was selling out, and he didn`t know how to stop it. He was forced to do tours when he didn`t want to, forced into all kinds of stuff. I was trying to get a hold of him - because I had heard some of the things he was doing to himself - just to tell him it`s OK not to tour, it`s OK not to do these things, just take control of your life and make your music. Or, hey, don`t make music. But as soon as you feel like you`re out there pretending, you`re fucked. I think he knew that instinctively, but he was young and he didn`t have a lot of self-control. And who knows what other personal things in his life were having a negative impression on him at the time?

It all depends on the directors. Working closely with a director is the main job of a film composer. Interpreting what he perceives as a color, an emotion or mood is very abstract. A director tells you something he wants and then you have to run back to your music and respond with, "I think he meant something like this."

Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.

I think that there are changes that have occurred in technology that make is that more people can have the same level of information that I have. My advantage is that I`m very good at interpreting the information.

Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.

I take what I see work. I`m a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.

Interpreting Jesus' command to eat His flesh and drink His blood as a metaphor '¦ is not enough, ... The logic is there to be seen: Jesus feeds the people literal bread. He offers literal eternal life to those who literally believe in him.