Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
Political analysts tend to overinterpret the results of isolated elections.
Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can't Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line. That's going too far.
I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.
Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.
Folks really need to be very cautious about overanalyzing or overparsing what I've said to this reporter or that reporter.
Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.
...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.
It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
The noble temptation to see too much in everything.
