Quotes About Vision

You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.

I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist.

One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.

He [Oliver Stone] is great. I really like working with directors who know what they want and aren't afraid to tell you, "Do it like this. Don't do it like that."

I'd love to be a huge television director. I definitely want to do that. I could imagine me going more and more into that, as I age.

Those who lead inspire us Whether they are individuals or organizations, we follow those who lead not because we have to but because we want to.

We must be clear about where we're going if we want anyone to help us get there.

People want change. How is Barack going to do it? I think McCain can bring change.

No-one wants acorns, but everyone wants oaks.

I don't have any kind of ideology that precludes me from moving in one direction or another. I just want creative autonomy and I want at least an opportunity that it's going to be seen.

I'm most alive when I'm on set. Whether I'm imagining it on my head, I know what I want to capture.

He has a very strong vision of what he wants.

Often people going into directing want to learn as much as they possibly can about "technique." And I say the hell with that.

[Hillary Clinton] needs to accomplish a lot. She also has to provide a unifying theme for all the things she wants to do.

I wanted to direct when I was very young. I had no idea of cinema, of who's doing what. That was my first instinct: "Okay, I want to be the boss."

The only guiding principle you can use is to make something that you want to see.

Whether it's Batman, Superman, Watchmen, the 300 story, we just make stuff that I want to see.

Parents should be able to develop goals about the type of parents they want to be.

Directing is a constant test of your communicative powers. You're constantly trying to explain people your vision of what you want and steer these tiny little details into a cohesive thing.

People who know what they want and why they want it, and have the skills to communicate that to others in a way that gains support

I think it's helpful to aspire to make films if you feel that other people are not doing what you want to do.

The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.

I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

We have to build the country that we want to see our future children and grandchildren live in.