Quotes About Vision

We are probably the only artists in the world who have a 2,000-page book on a work of art that doesn't exist. But in this way, these projects reveal their identity through this whole process. When I'm starting, I only have the slightest idea of how the work of art will exist.

Don't bother starting the 10,000th restaurant in Manhattan. Find something to do that if you don't do it, it won't get done.

I'm working on a few different films and I'm just searching for the right new story to tell. As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.

My starting point is always to read a script and have a conversation with the director about what their vision is, and then, after that, I love to do research.

To me, a great company starts with a great product and ends with a great product.

Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.

Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images.

I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.

I'm a big believer in creating parameters for creativity. I think parameters make people more creative. So that starts with my budgets. I only do low budget movies, and I think that makes the movies better.

I believe that the director is really the soul. It is a collaborative effort, but the director is the one who needs to have that vision. It could be a great script, but it starts from there. You need to have good material, at least, but if you don't have someone with vision, it's just words.

Keeping people fired up starts with having a really clear vision for what the company is aiming to do.

I think everything starts with an idea. No matter how crazy it is, you should always try to bring it to life.

Cultivating innovative thinking starts at the top. Leaders can foster a culture of innovation by encouraging creativity and experimenting with new ideas.

An entrepreneur is not a person who starts a company, but he is the person who actually solves a problem.

Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.

I have this passion for building things, so I always wanted to build a startup. I always wanted to start my own company.

If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.

Working on a startup is a balancing act: being crazy enough to believe your idea can take off but not crazy enough to miss the signs when it's clearly not going to.

In a startup, in the early days, it can be hard to explain what you do.

Founding a successful startup is no different than forming a rock band.

Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation.

I think my gift lies in being a startup entrepreneur and creating environments and experiences.

At Andreessen Horowitz, we talk about the notion of being 'too hungry to eat.' That's to say, we often see startups that are so entrenched in the product that the founders forget they need muscle to grow.

It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.