P. J. Harvey Quotes

The same words come from each mouth differently.

I like delivering a message, but what I find interesting is providing those details in a different context. Then the readers can make up their minds what it means.

Tone is up for grabs in what we do - what's the tone of the scene.

Tone is everything.

The words that are coming out of my mouth and how I mean them, it's so much different.

It is the man determines what is said, not the words.

People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'

I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.

It’s not what you say; it’s what people hear.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

It's the intent, not the word, that makes something harsh.

It all depends what you mean by.

Who knew three dots could make such a difference? Like everything else, a love or a wish or whatever, it was all in the way you read it.

Hey can mean anything. It can mean yes, it can mean maybe, it could mean no, it could mean next week. Hey, the bottom line is you have to understand me to understand hey.

There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

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

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

I think it's important for people to always understand what is the context is in what is being said, because that obviously determines what folks are talking about.

The medium is not the message - the message is the message.

If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.

Write what he means, not what he says.

In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.