Joel Edgerton Quotes

It's very hard to impose your beliefs or a specific message about any given movie. I think that audiences always extract what they want from a film even if something isn't overtly political. They may or may not get it, and it's hard to control that.

Everybody's going to approach a character differently, depending upon what they bring to it on their own intellectual level or their feelings from their heart and soul.

I want people to come see my films and enjoy them but at the end of the day you can't control what people think.

What a song is is a subjective thing. There's no one real definition for it.

A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

I will watch a movie that is quote unquote dark and not get the qualification of what is dark and what is not.

If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited.

I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.

If I have a certain opinion, I try to incorporate that into my work.

As an actress, I realize that viewers are entitled to have whatever feelings they want about the characters they watch.

What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.

I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as the writer.

But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.

It is the heart that makes the critic, not the nose.

Pictures... are also opinions... [they] set down what the camera operator sees and he sees what he wants to see and what he loves and hates and pities and is proud of.

I'm always interested in hearing how other people read and react to my songs. I hadn't thought of it in just that way. One of the things I love about doing things that are creative is that I feel like it's my right as an artist not to be affected by the reactions of those people that are going to hear my songs. But I also feel like it's the right of the people hearing them to have their own interpretations of what these songs mean. Sometimes people will see things that I don't see.

I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.

The lack of predictability with television is something that's constantly changing what your perception of who you think your character is.

Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

I don't care about anybody's perception of me except for the audience.

The same facts impress us differently.

Again and again one can listen: this is my opinion, I think this or that... As if it matters, what one or the other thinks! The point is much more to what the truth is!

Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way, sometimes a radically different way.

Film is a pretty poor medium to deliver a message. I'm not trying to do that. I'm just trying to ask a lot of questions and hopefully you can draw your own conclusions about whatever meaning might be there or what point there is; but I was conscious of wanting to create something that for a lack of a better word had a positivity and earned that.

The great thing about literature is that you're making up your own interpretation of the character anyway. Also, you're given basically a bible of who a character is and you're kind of shooting yourself in the foot if you're not reading it.