Quotes About Impact

A good filmmaker is someone who can look at a piece and go, "This camera's really going to be a character. I want people to feel like they're being punched."

I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like that'. We're like a train wreck.

You have to let your music be true and then people who want to adopt it as that, they take it on and they love it, and it changes their world.

Great literature rattles the mind and makes the body sing. It's an unmistakable, electric feeling, and too rare. That is what I want.

Stories do not change the world. I've learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way... I mean it's not the world I want to change.

If you have something really important you want to say, you have to read your audience, I guess.

What you said was true. we don't live or love in a vacuum. There are people around us who care about us who would be hurt, maybe destroyed if we let ourselves feel what we might want to feel.

The past, as you suggest, is absolutely present at all times and the present is born from the past. I wouldn't want to suggest that the past determines the present.

From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.

Music becomes very personal. When you marry a message you want to send out into the world with good music, all of a sudden you have a very potent way of delivering your message.

I believe that people want to hear good songs and they want to be moved.

That's the thing about terrorism - it works. Especially for the terrorists - they might not get what they want but it feels damn good trying.

I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.

We have to do much more than believe if we really want to change things.

Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and want to be every word you say.

If you, my fellow copywriters or art directors, want to win the award, devote your genius to making the cash register ring.

To be honest, when you're young and you watch The Deer Hunter for the first time, that's when you're like, "That's what I want to do."

Now, more than ever, the choice between Obama and Romney will be which one do you want to ruin your country?

You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow.

The skill-providers want to have more impact and solve problems; the problem people want new tools to get their problems solved.

I do not think I will ever become deadened, because I live in other people's lives, I must admit there are times when it weighs medown because I can't do some of the things I want.

All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: "Nobody wants violence."

If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.