Quotes About Vision

I think we'd like to direct. Not so much because we'd like to be directors... we'd like to see how one of our scripts would do if it didn't get changed.

Richard Serra, the great sculptor, personifies an artist for me.

I feel like, a lot of times, when you have a specific sound that you want and are searching for, you want the right group to help you put the kind of music out that you want.

I think about the next season right away.

I've always had an overwhelming desire to express a particular set of ideas. As a musician, I'm always working with different people who can teach me new things and, through that, reach closer to an idea of this perfect expression. I'm never setting out to change the face of electronic music; I'm just trying to define this vision.

Your first job, as an owner and an entrepreneur, has to be to understand how the business is going to actually work.

Ambition is important for any manager or coach, owner or director.

You need the actors to feel as much ownership of the performance and the direction of the story as you do to get the most out of everyone's potential. Part of it is just making sure we all have the same vision.

I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.

I'm still dancing - my mum owns a dance company - but I felt like there was more freedom in the music industry. You can take your vision and really bring it to life no matter what, because it's just you.

In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.

I'm not trying to be this guy just chugging along. I want to lead the pack.

Ambitious of vision and swooping of camera, 'I, Frankenstein' is no 'I, Robot,' let alone 'I, Claudius,' but it's definitely watchable on a cold Jan. evening or, a few months from now, on your I, Pad.

Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way.

It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115.

The hardest part about directing is getting everyone on the same page.

I need to be on the same page as the director.

I have a very clear vision, and I come from film, where director is God, so if there's a clash, it's painful.

Since I began making movies, I've always looked for screenwriters instead of going through the long and painful process of writing.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

If you're going to paint extremely, you need a big piece of canvas.

I wanted to deal with light directly rather than with paint.

I don't usually paint a big picture on what I'll do in the future.