Unbiased Interpretation Quotes

The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.

Finally, a good prosecutor knows that her job is to enforce the law without fear or favor. Likewise, a Supreme Court Justice must interpret the laws without fear or favor.

History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience.

I think there are many advantages to not knowing any of my prior work. The narrative threads, I think, are totally accessible to anyone who may never have heard of me. There's a beginning, a middle, and an end - I don't think there's going to be any confusion there.

I don't read anything about my movies before or after I do films, or any part of show business. I think that keeps me in a kind of place where I can do the work that I need to do.

I've always thought if you watch the performance and you don't know about the person, then you only see the performance.

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.

I didn't feel compromised as an actor, and allowed other people's fingerprints all over that aspect.

I see people as they really are from a pure point of view.

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.

When you sit down and watch something alone, you're going to watch it for what it is.

The church is not made up of one person but a whole congregation, and they should be able to interact with art without being told what to think.

Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.

History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops at the door of honest narrative.

An objective truth and individual reason are feared above all.

I think objectivity is like this strange myth that people think you're supposed to achieve, but actually, the dirty little secret is that it's not attainable any more than pure justice is attainable by the courts.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.

Critics, how I would love if you could clear the word 'sentimental' from your minds.

I think I just say what I'm thinking. And - you know, if people relate to it, they relate to it, but - I really - you know, if you really listen to me, I don't have my finger on any pulse.

One must be careful not to prejudge the past.

I think having a dispassionate eye is a good way of making art. When you don't know the structures of a place, you are unencumbered.

It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.

The media these days are not so much interested in saying things truthfully without distortion, without misrepresentation, without ridicule.