In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.
It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go.
We do not see the world through a window, but through a mirror. Everything we discern is comparatively held to the vision with which we see ourselves.
I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.
When the vision fills your brain and passion hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled. (Marti Melville)
When the vision fill yours mind and passio hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled.
Without a vision to guide our path, and without ambition that knows no limits, we can never build a bright future for generations to come.
My career is based primarily upon finding a balance with a director and their vision, and that means sublimating my own personal ego toward their material.
To say that everything without exception is going straight to hell is not an alternative vision but only an inversion of the mainstream's 'everything's fine.'
The man whose acquaintance with the world does not lead him deeper than science leads him, will never understand what it is that the man with the spiritual vision finds in these natural phenomena.
Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope.
Well, I'm very stubborn. I think I have common sense; I'm probably at times a bit tunnel-visioned, but I'm strong.
But if the vision is strong enough, and your goals are steady, and you believe, pretty soon you bring other people with you.
Peace is not only the absence of war, but also a way of seeing the world, and the choices we make are how we express and manifest that vision of the world.
American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster.
Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there.
You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins.
Anger and resentment are problems for our understanding and vision. They happen when we are away from our real purpose and mission.
Our goal was to show people a vision of food they hadn't seen before. So, I had this idea of... let's cut all these things in half, and show a picture of the food in the pan, in the oven.
In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.
