Quotes About Progress

As much as we love playing the small clubs, we'd really like to get ourselves in front of a larger audience. I'm not talking about arenas or anything, but nice theaters and larger clubs.

Growing up, I thought it would be great if I could do big theaters. Now we're doing arenas.

It's not a great feeling for a film to suffer financially, but you can't sit and mope about it. You just have to just move on to next project - I try to always be working on a new project when my last one hits the theaters.

If I listen to 120 stories, I'd love 10 of them, seven would go on floors, four would get completed, three films will have the first copy ready, and one will release in theaters. This is how it has been for me.

I finished high school and college - I actually moved to New York to study film - and was always working in theaters and studying. You never stop learning.

It's important to move the theatre into the 21st Century.

At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.

When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.

Theatre is castigated for wallowing in self-indulgence, but it's curiously unsentimental. You simply have to move on. Everything passes. Something in me likes that.

Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Selling potato chips was obvious, as it was a family business. When friends suggested I should try theatre, I gave it a shot. Then I did a lot of advertisements, and then movies happened.

'Babel' is a continuation of a project; it's not like now we are more theatrical. We've grown up, seen places, been places, and that is shown in this album.

If you are looking for a producer, try to contact established producers. Don't let the fear of theft paralyze you, or you will never get anywhere with it.

The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.

One finds limits by pushing them.

It's not about changing people; it's sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

I think death is a crucial element when designing games around the theme of the satisfaction of overcoming overwhelming odds.

But more than anything I kind of pride myself in continuing the process that we're trying to accomplish, and that's just to get better and work on my fundamentals. So that's been kind of in the theme now for a couple years and we stuck with it and that's kind of what I want to keep doing.

You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.

The theme of 'Karate' is about fighting yourself to break down barriers and move forward.

Maybe a theme that touches all of my work is people reinventing themselves.

Innovation is the running theme and spirit of the policies adopted by the Chinese government, and it is the banner that we will always hold high.