Quotes About Vision

Many of us are walking around living smaller lives than we're meant to live. Don't allow yourself to dream smaller than you were meant to dream.

Some films really do take years to get going, but I'd say that most of the films I want to do are slightly smaller projects. Some could be sketches. They're not all oil paintings.

We need people with foresight who are willing to make films with smaller budgets and accept smaller profits.

My husband is that rare man who is blessed with the ability to see the big picture but will not ignore the smallest detail. He will work an 18-hour day and still find time to help the kids with their homework.

If you are focused on profits right out of the gate, you're gonna have the smallest profitable business that has ever been seen.

I want to work with filmmakers who are really smart.

I want to make smart television.

You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!

I've certainly seen R&D groups, typically funded by large corporations, where they bring together a lot of smart people and nothing happens. And the reason nothing happens is that they don't have a clear goal.

Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought.

I guess the news is this: If you're a Republican and you smile, liberals don't like it. Maybe that's because Democrats are afraid that I've been able to show an optimistic vision for this country.

Manny Smith & Interscope CEO John Janick understand me and my vision for myself and also my label. Interscope gave me the opportunity to take over the game completely, and that's what I'm going to do.

I don't think I approach my songs differently from other artists. You get a big picture of it, and you imagine the song and hear and feel it, and that big picture is like a snapshot, and it comes to you as fast as it takes to click a camera.

I think very often problems are so big, people approach problems from the bottom up: 'If only I do this little bit, then hopefully there will be some sort of snowball effect that will be bigger and bigger.' I'm much more in favor of the top-down approach to problem-solving.

Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are.

When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

Directing is a unique endeavor where you are in charge of so many people. As a writer, it is sort of the opposite.

Marc by Marc Jacobs was my favorite. The stage was so big, and there were so many people there. I had very bad vision during the show because I forgot to put in my contacts, but I didn't fall or anything.

'Modelland' has always been a part of my mind and my heart. I'm excited that you'll be able to read about this magical world that's been living in my dreams for so many years.

I have a romantic vision of the beautiful delineation between TV and film that existed for so many years. I romanticize the studio system and movie stars as a whole, but obviously that's just anachronistic and probably a non-reality.

It's just so much fun when you're working with folks who are not just at the top of their game but reinventing the game. It's like a whole new machine.

I don't have very good peripheral vision, that so-called sixth sense people have. I used to have a really good one, and now I couldn't feel anybody come around a corner.

Lewis Mumford once wrote that somewhere in the nineteenth century it became necessary to know how to read before one could truly see a building.

think big about who you are and what you offer the world.