Philip Winchester Quotes

Every one of us has a response of some kind to music, so I don't think it's fair to ever judge what is proper and what's not.

To an extent, our relationship with the movies is always subjective. Our capacity to be involved says as much about each of us; I've never fathomed why anyone would want to spend four hours in the company of the exceedingly tiresome Scarlett O'Hara.

I don't believe in expertise. I don't believe that a film critic feels a film more deeply than any person who walks into a theater. I don't believe that.

I don't know why people see the things that they do. I wouldn't pay to see them, they don't touch me or move me in any way.

Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings.

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.

Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

The fact is that you're never gonna believe any of the reviews, because the movie is to you what it is to you. No one's ever gonna sway you from what you feel about it.

Like when I hear a beat, it might make you feel a way, but then it might make me feel a completely different way.

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.

I think two different people can read one of my books and come away with completely different opinions on the subject. I hope they just read from the beginning to the end and be made to think about the subject. Then they can come to their own conclusions.

All tastes are expressions of belief.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade.

Your dreams are always going to seem much more profound to you then they are to your friend.

I like the saying: "The world is as you are." And I think films are as you are. That's why, although the frames of a film are always the same - the same number, in the same sequence, with the same sounds - every screening is different. The difference is sometimes subtle but it's there. It depends on the audience. There is a circle that goes from the audience to the film and back. Each person is looking and thinking and feeling and coming up with his or her own sense of things. And it's probably different from what I fell in love with.

You can't get someone to like something they aren't feeling. After you press play, there isn't anything you can do.

There is no right reaction. There is only your reaction.

Photography hankers after the condition of the neutral observer. But there can be no such things as a neutral observer. For something to be seen, it must be looked at by somebody, and any true and real depiction must be an account of the experience of that looking.

Opinions can't be inaccurate.

The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.