Quotes About Vision

When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.

Everybody comes to film differently; everybody has different backgrounds. Just find whatever your lane is naturally. Don't try to force yourself into someone else's vision or try to tell a story that you're not passionate about.

I passionately believe that you should start a company that you really believe in. Don't start something that you have no interest in, start something that you're passionate about.

I am not sentimental about the past. I like to think about what is next.

Create your future from your future not your past.

Don't hold on to the past; it won't help in moving forward. Dare to dream big.

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

Elections are about the future and not about the past.

From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.

If you can't say where you're going, you're not going to get there. And I've known all along where I'm going, and sometimes the road takes a few curves that you didn't see, but you've got to stay the path.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

When I have a new idea, I'm charged up and want to start the film immediately, but I simply don't have the patience to wait for stars.

We have to define American patriotism as future-oriented.

An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.

My advice today, to established acts and new-coming acts, is the same advice I'd give to myself: pause for a minute, and really think about 'What is your goal? Where do you see yourself?'

I always say, the greatest cost of leading is the cost of paving the way.

When something is aspirational, you don't want someone to be thinking about payment every single time.

When people don't have a hopeful vision before them or the possible resolution of their difficulties by peaceful means, then they can be attracted to violence and to separatism.

Yeah, I feel as an artist, making a movie is the top of the food chain - that's the peak, the climax of everything.

When I close my eyes and think of a writer, I don't imagine him or her as someone who is sitting above me on a pedestal, blindfolded, holding the scales of justice in one hand! No, I see sentences.

I'd like to see the word 'entrepreneur' knocked off its pedestal. Being 'entrepreneurial' is something I look for not only in founders to invest in, but also employees to hire.

A lot of my peers don't think about collaborating the way I do. My approach is to imagine my world. The Jason Wu woman isn't just floating around in a beautiful dress. I like to know where she's going, what she likes. I'm not just in the fashion business. I'm in the lifestyle business.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!