Quotes About Vision

Producing a film is not an easy job at all.

I am a creative person, and knew my bigger picture would be writing, directing, and producing; that's what I've always thought I would get to one day.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

You can have the best product in the world, you can have the best motivation in the world, you can have best education in the world, you can have all the money in the world - but if you don't have direction, you'll never go anywhere.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

It can't be that difficult to build a great thermostat. So I decided to figure out: What would the thermostat for the iPhone generation look like? I got this bug. It really infected my brain. I kept thinking about it. This could be a cool product that matters and a cool product that has a great business.

I need to aspire to be a great CEO and not just a great product engineer.

When I lecture kids, I say, 'You've got to be ambitious by the advertising' - ambitious. You've got to say, 'See, this product? Maybe I can change the world with this product.' They look at me like I'm nuts, but that's what you can do.

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.

If I do a play, it's my vision, and everybody else is working on the production to support that. If I do an opera, I feel like part of my job is to support that composer, to try and create something that allows the composer to do his or her best work. In movies, it's usually the director.

A lot of directors say, 'Do whatever you want, and I'll just change it on set.' But I love being involved in every part of production. It's very exciting. It's like an empire of creation: Everybody is working so hard to respect a vision and an idea, and it's very weird and inspiring at the same time.

When a director is also a writer, everyone on the production looks to him, knowing he gave birth to the idea. There's a different level of viability.

There are a couple of ways to use the word democracy, and the way that I think is productive is to think about democracy as not a state that can actually be achieved, but as an ideal.

I don't see any difference between architecture and engineering. It's the same profession.

I like to be an idea person. I like to pull different people together and find new talent.

There are not many people who understand that creative management is a very different thing than normal management. You don't manage accounts like you manage designers.

There are a million different things that I want to do.

I try to do different things, beautiful things, to play the game the way I see it, and I think I'm doing it pretty well.

Young designers will often look at things in a different way, and when I was first designing, that's exactly how I felt. People would say, 'That is wrong,' but 'That' was how I wanted it.

Every manager has his own ideas and different ways of doing things.

I always wanted to be part of a movie that creates a different world.

Films take us into an entirely different world, and that's why we must ensure that our long shots do justice.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.