Quotes About Legacy

I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic.

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

I was reading Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks, and I'm still very, very deeply moved by Gwendolyn Brooks's life and her work.

I would like to look back on my body of work and be proud of each record in its own right, but as a whole, I want to continue to grow and move forward.

The tournament means so much to me as well as the things I do in Africa. I thought it could also work well together.

Your history of work is as important as the work you'll do tomorrow.

The opportunity is not in being momentarily popular with the anonymous masses. It's in being missed when you're gone, in doing work that matters to the tribe you choose.

Greatness is a matter of a moment. Goodness is the work of a lifetime.

I enjoyed reading Batman, and Superman, and all the super ones, but I never wished I created them. I've got to let there be some work for other people!

I wanted my work to be seen for free in a public space, I want to be up there with Pollock and de Kooning, one of the big boys.

Try and benefit others, animals, the whole of the earth, as much as you can. And in that space, challenge yourself to find what it is you can bring about through your life's work.

I gotta tell you, I do not envy whoever they try to put in David Letterman's chair. Folks those are some huge shoes to fill, and some really big pants.

Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.

I always thought of my career as a body of work and not just about numbers.

When the last moment arrives, praise and blame will be the same to you, to me, and to others. We are here to work, and will have to leave all when the call comes.

I would love to work with Gena Rowlands. I just don't know in what capacity. I'd play her daughter or granddaughter, or whatever. I would just love to work with her, in whatever capacity.

I much prefer to work with dead writers, and ones who were writing four hundred years ago.

From time to time, little men will find fault with what you have done...but they will go down the stream like bubbles, they will vanish. But the work you have done will remain for the ages.

I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back.

Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.

In the time it takes American literary titan William H. Gass to write a novel, other artists have been born, completed their life's work and died. That may be an exaggeration, but only a slight one.

Being compared to the greatest-ever safety is pretty ridiculous. I continue to work toward that, but I'm not there and I know that.

I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.

I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.