Quotes About Vision

I want to make good films; I don't want to make films for the moment.

When you realize there are geniuses out there and you'd be a journeyman... that's not good enough. I'd rather be the person helping those who are one in a billion get their vision out.

When you start thinking as far as what's a good photo, unfortunately everything starts looking like a good photo.

Good leaders have a generosity gene.

I always believe you can't kill good movies, because somebody's in some room and will die unless it gets made.

I'm really specific in the way that I shoot. I've always had a very good sense of what I need in the editing room.

Me and music are not good friends, so I do my best to augment the music part [of my films] and come up with something worth watching.

I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

As long as I stay true to what I believe is a good movie and what is my vision, that's all I can do.

Really good original ideas are very hard to come up with. Good ideas - easy. Really good, original ideas - it can take months.

To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas.

If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut.

I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has to something move over that and somehow become personal to the director.

The best ideas often look terrible at the beginning the truly good ideas, don't seem like they're worth stealing.

To hell with the cost, if it's a good story, I'll make it.

I think the mark of a good director is that they surround themselves with good people.

If you're going to make a movie for ten thousand you can talk everybody into doing it for free. You could make a really good-looking movie right for ten grand, if you have an idea.

It might be good to open our eyes and see.

Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.

No leader can create sustainable, significant change without a reservoir of good will. Without that, you always tend to compromise with failure.

Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well and they can make it beautiful. You don't really know.

The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision for us was a Republic and limited government.

Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision.