A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.

A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.

Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.

The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.

Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

Film-making is a physically hard job.

I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.

I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit familiar.' Then I realise... It's one of my movies. It's a pretty odd feeling.

I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.

I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London.'

I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're aiming for, and you just believe somehow you'll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point.

I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.

One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.

From my very first day in the Mayor's office, I have worked closely with the Council members who share our vision of a city hall that really protects taxpayers and cares... yes... about the little things that make a big difference in people's lives.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision.

It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

One is, that they will feel about you that you're going to make something wonderful for them. And they help you by expressing themselves. Not telling you how to do it, but encouraging you and accepting your vision and working with you on that kind of a level.

This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue.

I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

My vision is to have an independent Kosovo, democratic, with a politically tolerant society and with a solid economy, integrated into the EU, the NATO and to continue with our good relations with the USA.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done.

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.

Doesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off.

We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

They want more production and they want it cheaper. But no matter what happens, the creative idea will be perpetuated by somebody who comes up with a vision. I don't care if there are three ceos - it takes one guy with an idea.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

When I put my nose in a glass, it's like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is just gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

"Camp" is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.