Quotes About Vision

It was always the intention that Shriram would have started a bank at some point.

My intention is to do more films.

People get confused when they see my shows, but that isn't the intention. My intention is to destabilize the act of seeing.

I like it when I can hear directly from the writer: what they're seeing, what they're envisioning, and what their intention is.

Great films happen, and no one can make them on intention.

No matter how big or new they are, I always look for the intention of the filmmaker first. Their intention has to be in the right place.

With 'Daud,' basically, I wanted to make a very 'Mad Max' kind of a film: that was my original intention.

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

Art doesn't interest me. Only artists interest me.

The interesting thing I realized writing the 'X-Men' is I always had a sense of where I was going.

Interior design wasn't something I rushed into.

You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal.

Kotter International is about leading large-scale change, not just managing it.

I see the Internet as the next big deal - I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn't get behind it all.

I guess, as a director, you sort of take the script, and you find ways to interpret it.

When you're writing something to direct, you just write exactly what you're going to do. You don't have to write it in a way for other people to understand or interpret.

Directing is an act of interpretation.

Any system of periodization is thus inevitably social, since our ability to envision the historical watersheds separating one conventional "period" from another is basically a product of being socialized into specific traditions of carving the past.

Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Artists are the antennae of the race.

Nothing short of divine vision or a new cure for the clapp can possibly be worth all the circumambient peripherization. [on Finnegans Wake]

And so the space Of my still consciousness Is full of gilded snow, The which, no cat has eyes enough To see the brightness of. — Ezra Pound, from "Middle-Aged," Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, 1912–22 . Edited by Harriet Monroe. (Chicago, 1912–22)

The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.