Quotes About Vision

My favorite movies are from directors that have a vision, like Wes Anderson or Tim Burton.

If you could get all the people in the organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.

The future doesn't just happen. We are building it, and we are building it all the time.

I am a huge fan of Quentin Tarantino, who takes time to figure out what his next movie is.

I felt a sense of fulfillment that an action plan, which I'd laid on the table on the 2nd of February 1990, had been fulfilled, had been properly implemented within the time frame which I envisaged.

Everybody thought that screen time was bad for vision. Well, it happens that spending a lot of time reading on a computer is bad for your vision, but spending a lot of time playing first-person-shooter games is good for your vision.

I want to make timeless movies.

Whenever I'm making a film, it has to be timeless.

Timeless' was always gonna be the blueprint as an artist for me.

I am really precise about who I want to work with and, no matter the timeline, I push to get what I think would be cool.

We knew in our gut that History needed to be more than a timeline.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.

The best leaders don't set timid and selfish goals but instead set bold targets that may be harder to achieve.

When you can't see you become very timid about space and moving. You become less aggressive and less tenacious. Lots of things that shouldn't be affected by vision really are. And you don't even know what they are until they become unstuck.

The criticism of the Democrats in the past is that they were too timid. They ran on consultant-driven platitudes and didn't offer a compelling enough vision.

In the early '90s when the American independent movie started, it held personal vision as a premium. That was brilliant timing.

When you're tense and you're forcing the issue, you kind of cloud your vision, so I think just being confident and super relaxed, waiting for my timing, has really helped me.

If you build a Model T and you can see the Camry, you don't spend time tinkering with the T; you go straight to the next thing. Once you build the Camry, you can see the Ferrari, so you go straight to that.

Networks like Adult Swim allow artists to be artists and allow their vision to come through without a lot of tinkering. I worked on 'Moral Orel' and 'Mary Shelley's Frankenhole,' and they bothered us very little. They very, very seldom came to us and said 'Change this,' or 'You can't do that,' or 'We'd like to see this.'

Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.

Eventually, when I started studying Egyptology, I realized that seeing with my naked eyes alone wasn't enough. Because all of the sudden, in Egypt, my beach had grown from a tiny beach in Maine to one eight hundred miles long, next to the Nile.

You can't become a history-maker stuck in tiny thinking. You just can't.