Quotes About Vision

I'm not very aware of styles. We never talk about styles before we start shooting, or even during shooting, because I think the film will bring you there.

I definitely want to act, but I also want to score movies, and I have this idea to fuse classical music with other styles that would give it a different perception.

As the stylist, sometimes you see things that you love that don't work, and that's OK. That's why we have fittings!

It's funny: as a director, there are movies you make because you're passionate about getting your vision across, and you know that you're vision is different than anybody else. In those cases, you take the plunge, and it works, or it doesn't. You make the stylistic choices based on how you feel about the material.

Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.

It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject.

Entrepreneurs must be practical experts. They needn't set out to be subject matter experts in what they do; they must set out to solve a problem or pursue some cause or purpose greater than themselves.

New industries are created by entrepreneurs who don't necessarily have subject matter expertise when they get started, yet they are still responsible for most of the innovation we see in society.

Whenever you write script without a director, you put in things that point toward a style in which the story will be told, a subjective style.

There came a point sometime during high school when I started thinking about exploring acting as a career, but it was more of an intention than an actual decision. I was very interested in a lot of different subjects, but every time I envisioned myself actually pursuing one as a career, I always ended up thinking that I would rather be acting.

Film-makers are greedy people - we want good stories and good subjects.

The problem is, you see, I've just got so many subjects I want to direct.

If you look at my career... I couldn't possibly have chosen those subjects if I was thinking, 'That's a great commercial idea.' I'm not aware of a great musical where someone has done that.

Take any movie from 'Khamoshi' to 'Black,' I was always clear about my subjects.

I have a dormant director in me. I do think about subjects and films I want to make. I get pretty excited about them.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

As a director the first level of management is people. You have to deal with about 100 creative egos and make sure they subscribe to your vision and give you their best.

First, I take a lot of time to just explain my vision of what the game should be to the team. Then I make all subsequent decisions based on how I want to feel when I buy the game, and what impressions I want to have of it. I then go about implementing the little points that will lead up to that finished product.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

The substance of painting is light.

I think the best campaigns are campaigns of ideas and substance.

I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.

Before I was attacked, I would write about the future - just goals, lists and plans. I'd scribble without depth or substance about the things I wanted to do with my life, whether short or long-term, and how I thought my future would be: a successful career in TV and modelling, marriage, a family.

A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.