Quotes About Vision

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I just hope to continue making and finishing films. And then get them seen.

Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.

Design-wise, I look at everything. If I don't personally design it, I'll review it. I'm kind of creative director of the firm.

It's so cheesy, but I'm a firm believer in 'If you build it, they will come.'

The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

Just going along with this, what I did, or what I do is I imagine not being myself seeing it, but imagine somebody else who's seeing it for the first time.

Once you're an entrepreneur you're always an entrepreneur, and you need that fix.

Every American in uniform, in the White House or at home - USA! USA! USA! - we must be a force for unity in America, for a vision that includes all of us. All of us. Every man and woman, every race, every ethnicity, every faith and creed, including the Americans who are our precious Muslims. And every gender and every gender orientation.

Conservatives looking at presidential candidates have to ask what kind of leader they want sitting in the White House.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Whoever envisions not one but two series in New York?

Whoever my films are about, they'll hopefully still have my sensibility, whatever that is.

My appeal to the composers, whoever touches an old classic, will only be this much: take it up only if you can express it your way, too; work hard with the writers; make them see your new vision for the song; change the lyrics, yet, keep the soul of the original song intact.

My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl's grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That's my real dream.

I am glad that mankind on the whole are dreamers.

I wore glasses my whole life, but then I got Lasik eyeball surgery, and I fixed that.

I kind of have this sense of mission now when we talk about success: I'd really like Whole Foods to contribute to the healing of America, and the success of that may be measured in decades rather than in months, but I think we're on the way to doing it.

'Snowpiercer' was out of this world. It gave me a chance to do something I'd never done before, to create a whole new world.

Somewhere down the line, I felt the need to come to grips with the realistic - or live action - image which seemed to me central to the notion of film. And then a whole new world opened to me.

To catch a piece of life on camera and make it come alive, add layers to it and deliver a product that is wholesome is really exciting to me.