Quotes About Impact

Most people haven't figured out when you are of service to other people outside of just yourself, the doorway for opportunity and blessings come in a very very different way.

There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

Few living figures could contribute as much as Castro to our understanding of the second half of the 20th century.

You have to find the balance of figuring out how can I be effective? How can I use my platform for good, you know, without jeopardizing everything so that I don't have that platform anymore.

It is not a happy time when a film doesn't do well... Everything affects you, success affects you and failure also affects you.

The blessing that this film business has given me is that when I walk into a school I automatically have everyone's attention. They want to hear what the guy from 'Con Air' and 'Desperado' has to say.

Four or five years ago I decided to stop cursing the darkness - I had been complaining about movies and their content for years - and instead to do something about it by getting into the film business.

There's no other industry in the world where you could spend $100m as frivolously as they do in the film industry. Think about how much good you could do with $100m... it can be spent in 20 minutes on a movie.

Of course, whether it's for negative or positive reasons, I've always been in the news... I've been constantly discussed inside and outside the film industry. That means I matter, doesn't it?

A lot of the time, excess on a film set is just damaging.

I can always tell when a filmmaker doesn't care about his or her characters; they just care about setting them up to kill them off.

You want somebody who's capable of being diverse in the characters they play, and you want a big name that's going to bring attention to the filmmakers and to the project.

My take on it, like a filmmaker or actor, is if you have much more colors within your creation, eventually people will appreciate what you're doing, and the other stuff is secondary, like critiques or even awards or anything else, as long as people enjoy it.

Most women I know are not actresses, but they work for the U.N. or are documentary filmmakers, anthropologists.

Every filmmaker wants to get their audience talking.

It's amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.

Not all films are going to go down in history.

Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.

The nature of the final Brexit deal really matters. It is, as I have said before, the battle of our times.

Growing up, I remember the 'Cheers' finale and 'M*A*S*H' and all these amazing finales, and I remember them being very, very important.

I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.

Some of the people in finance touch enormous parts of the economy.

Nobody would deny that if someone was a billionaire in 1962, his billions are going to affect all of his descendants. The reverse is also true. The lack of education, material, and finances for a slave are going to affect the descendants of that individual as well.