Quotes About Legacy

I hope that I'm not simply defined by 'The X-Files,' and I hope I have more work that is important to do.

There's a lot of young guys coming along, but I'd like to say to the various financiers, don't forget the senior guys. The senior guys and gals are there, willing to do their best work for you.

We're a family operation. There's not many of us. We have a couple people who come from time to time who work with us. Two of my sons are themselves filmmakers, and we can't afford them nor they us.

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.

But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.

Important artists are innovators whose work changes the practices of their successors.

Bring Your Child to Work Day -- that's how we got George W. Bush.

I am a father, I am very aware of the things that I'm putting out in the world knowing that one day my children will watch the work that I've done. I want to be able to stand by it.

Bobby [Fosse] was very difficult to work with, he wanted to be a big star at MGM, but it was the end of making musical movies at the time.

As a producer, youre pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.

There's never been a presidency that's done so much in such a short period of time, and we haven't even started the big work yet.

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.

I was educated to think maybe Brazil works, maybe it doesn't. But I decided I am going to make this country work for my children. I am investing all my effort now in making Brazil a great country.

The Quartets have been a major part of my work.

I feel like I want to be known first and foremost for my work.

Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about while we're alive.

Typically your work will end up in a museum [after] you're dead. And maybe that's the function of a museum. It's an archive of your work after you're dead.

it takes as long as three generations of hard work, three generations of sacrifice to correct the wrong!

I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.

The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.

Throughout, the work of Tyndale formed the foundation, and more than anyone else he established the rhythms and furnished much of the language which is familiar to us in the Authorised Version.

In the middle of Beaches there's a scene from the "Laverne & Shirley" TV show so they see some history of my work in each film.

People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.