Quotes About Vision

I want to act, I want to write, and I need to follow good directors.

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.

There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination.

Just taking a piece of dirt and envisioning the building you'd like to put on it - it's an amazing process.

Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.

Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

I am disappointed because nobody is talking about food and agriculture. They're talking about the diets of children, but they're talking about Band-Aids. We're not seeing a vision.

I have my own vision to lead the Seoul City, but whether or not I can display it totally depends on the citizens.

It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because as a young actor you feel at everyone's disposal. But I wanted to become a leader in the business.

I've seen a lot of people come out of Carol City, but I had this distinct vision for Carol City, just me coming out of there, because my music is so different from anybody else who came out of there.

I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.

I personally don't distinguish between artistic and commercial films.

I have bad vision, but it's not distorted. It's low power!

Nothing will distract me from my focus, my galactic mind.

Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you're called to do, it's more of a distraction.

Sometimes you have to be a diva. All the artists I admire from Madonna to Whitney to Mariah have all been called divas. If you are strong, if you have vision, if you are an artist, you have to do what you believe in. And if you get called a diva for it, then so what.

I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.

Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist.

Unfortunately, from my days as national coach were going backwards in terms of we dont see it as an investment, we see it as an expense. We just have too short-term thinking, there just arent enough people with a broader vision as to how we can actually we can make Australia a force in world football.

The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.

It is up to the directors to take risks in telling a story and if they want to experiment, they should work with the right kind of people.

I am not afraid to experiment - sometimes going beyond what is traditionally beautiful is what makes a great picture.

My expertise is running businesses.

Every leader needs to clearly explain the top three things the organization is working on. If you can't, then you're not leading well.