Quotes About Vision

I hope I can become a good enough filmmaker where I can take a script that I'm not 'heart and soul' into, but I could still make something really great out of it.

There are a lot of people in the industry and stuff who said no we don't want to sign a guitar band, that's not working. But people had faith in us and our vision and got behind us with their heart and soul.

I think every artist should follow their vision; their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for. That said though, I think also artists have, continuously good artists, have been good for their times.

I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.

I love doing concert choreography because everything is about your vision, come heck or high water. Of course, you also take the blame for everything, but it's wonderful to be able to make up dance for dance's sake.

I'm always looking at the ball and making sure it goes in. I'm not looking at where I'm at or what level I'm at in height.

Set your heights more than what you see around you, see beyond.

No matter how many helicopters there are, when it comes down to it there is the camera and you.

I wanted to do the whole album in black and white, and it really killed me that when you see it in the light it's got green in it. I don't know what the hell that was about.

For a director, a musical is a special kind of hell.

I want my art to help people reimagine God.

I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping others see.

I like to be involved with the scriptwriter early on, helping shape the story, and working out how the story can be told directorially.

It's our heritage: we Democrats, we dream a lot.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

I set really high expectations.

I don't know, you know all through high school I just knew I wanted to do it.

I believe we should appeal to people at the higher levels.

In the future, I see myself at the highest level. That's what I dream about.

I choose to fight for the future, to seize the high ground and retake the Shining City on a Hill.

Remember Circuit City? Bear Stearns? Lehman Brothers? Sports Authority? Once, all were billion-dollar companies - then gone in a moment. The fatal problem might be fraud or corruption, but more often, it's simply that management didn't see 'over the other side of the hill.'

My dream is to become a director. I want to direct a Hindi film.

Seek not that your sons and your daughters should not see visions, should not dream dreams; seek that they should see true visions, that they should dream noble dreams. Such out-going of the imagination is one with aspiration, and will do more to elevate above what is low and vile than all possible inculcations of morality.

our imagination is made to mirror truth; all the things that appear in it are more or less after the model of things that are; I suspect it is the region whence issues prophecy; and when we are true it will mirror nothing but truth.