Quotes About Future

I have made a decision that in future, I will only take on movies that have a better than 75 per cent chance of being made, and that's not easy.

Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them.

When you're young, and you're doing stuff, you're making music, directing, making art, it's all future directed. You want to change stuff onward. And when you get older - this applies to me - you think about the things you want to do and how it will be perceived by your children one day.

I always put in my 100 percent. Once the film is over, I look at my next, because then it's up to the audience to decide my fate.

It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college.

And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

All of our competitors around the world, every country is investing more in infrastructure as a percentage of their GDP than we are. And down the road our children and grandchildren will have to compete with that more and more.

We are not out to boast that there is so much percentage of growth per year. Our real concern is how it affects the lives of people, the future of our country.

I think the future of this planet depends on humans, not technology, and we already have the knowledge - we're kind of at the endgame with knowledge. But we're nowhere near the endgame when it comes to our perception. We still have one foot in the dark ages.

It seemed to me the perfect company for the 21st century would be one that was technology-orientated with great content and national scale.

In a perfect world, I'd end up at NXT.

It's so interesting, when you're a parent, you have these big ideals. Before I had kids, you imagine this sort of egalitarian society. You project this perfect world on the path you're going to set for your kids.

Understanding the past is perfectly admissible if your issue is accepting the past. But if your issue is changing the future, understanding will not take you there.

I asked the question, 'Will I ever perform again?'

I couldn't see a future of doing anything other than performing. I didn't like school if I'm being honest. I would have settled for performing in any capacity.

When I was in 'Billy,' I always knew that I wanted to do something in performing. I always knew that I wanted to have a future in the performing arts. I had no idea that it was going to be acting in movies.

Unless we build theater and performing arts, then we're not going to be creating future patrons. We need to make it accessible.

I think that the 21st century will be feminine, that it's women who will, perhaps, find a way out for this world.

Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future.

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.

Every city in America and in the world should be trying to grow its technology ecosystem, period. Especially if they care about their children and their grandchildren.

I am extremely bullish in the longer period.

One of the perks of growing up, but also one of the biggest challenges, is making decisions about the future. Deciding what kind of job you want, whether you want to finish school, or whether you want to go to university are huge choices to make.

America is the future. I am committed to the States. I'm guessing this is going to be a permanent move.