Quotes About Visionary

Peter Jackson is a real big hero of mine because he had the nerve to make 'The Hobbit' at 48 frames per second.

Peter Jackson has the sort of imagination that no one else has.

I'm a phenomenal fan of Elon Musk. I think he's the greatest. He's a disrupter, and I think he is a great marketer. And I love him.

I'm a huge fan of Philip K. Dick.

'Creative director' is a catchall phrase for giving ideas. To me, it obviously means more than that. It's like being a counselor.

I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe 50 that they have that's really trying to go outside the box, trying to do something that's tough. And then when you accomplish it, you look back and go, 'Yeeaaaah - masterpiece.'

Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.

I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want to paint people. I want to paint something I have never seen before. I don't want to make what I'm looking at. I want the fragments.

The real product at Diesel is satisfaction. My satisfaction at Diesel is being a pioneer.

We are pioneers of creating a new genre of metal.

I've always taken it upon myself to be a pioneer or a leader, and create a different sound, not just go by what the radio is playing at the time.

I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.

Pascal Lee is a true pioneer of Mars exploration.

My father was a pioneer and a leader in the things he did and the way he did them.

When I first met Jeff Bezos back in the late 90s, the only automated thing in his office was a rotating fan, gently blowing across a pair of identical blue shirts he'd hung on a water pipe behind his desk.

I'm not a pirate. I'm an innovator.

Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.

Though I respect hugely the effort and the care and the beauty of games, I want to be working with people who want to create the 'War & Peace' of games, the 'Citizen Kane' of games, and not just be warming up George Romero.

I always say that my job is not to think about today. My job is to look around the corner and feel and see what's coming, and then warn everybody else.

To appreciate its apparent complication, it is useful to zoom in on its image (which you can access via the links in this endnote).

I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know?

We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.

A director is a director. We shouldn't categorize one into a this or that director.

When I started to build this cathedral, the word on the street was that I was crazy.