Quotes About Vision

he could see the blackened, deformed shape in the pile of embers.

Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire!

Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that.

How could men get fat by being bad and starve by being good? I thought and thought about my vision, and it made me very sad.

These things I shall remember by the way, and often they may seem to be the very tale itself, as when I was living them in happiness and sorrow. But now that I can see it all as from a lonely hilltop, I know it was the story of a mighty vision given to a man too weak to use it; of a holy tree that should have flourished in a people's heart with flowers and singing birds, and now is withered; and of a people's dream that died in bloody snow.

The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's own vision.

M. Gandhi is reported to have said: "There go my people. I must find out where they are going, so I can lead them."[a.]

May God us keep From simple vision and Newton's sleep. —William Blake[xxvii]

what makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth...

He stands out among the beacon lights of history as a man of vision dominated by a definite purpose.

We all use the future to escape the present.

Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will... but then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else... But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine tht kills the fascists.

The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination." "O futuro não é um lugar para onde estamos indo, mas um lugar que estamos criando. O caminho para ele não é encontrado, mas construído e o ato de fazê-lo muda tanto o realizador quanto o destino.

DARE to Dream the Impossible Dream.....DARE to DREAM SOMETHING BIGGER THAN YOURSELF.

I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained.

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

To me the ideal film - which I've never succeeded in making - would be as though the reel were behind one's eyes and you were projecting it yourself, seeing what you wish to see. This has a great deal in common with thought processes ... That's why I think the camera is an eye as well as a mind. Everything we do with the camera has physiological and mental significance.

We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.

yes, writing is mostly a dream, but angels visit in dreams

El miedo te desordena tanto las ideas que no te deja ver nada más.

Traza una línea, dale un golpe de color al lienzo... y todo se aclarará.

Estar loco te proporciona una visión interesante de la vida

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.