"Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision."
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"I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort."
"Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance."
"Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us."
"The strength and clarity of your vision will lift you out of the depth of any hardship."
"'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated."
"Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another."
"The world is a sacred vessel. It should not be meddled with. It should not be owned. If you try to meddle with it you will ruin it. If you try to own it you will lose it"
"I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives."
"Religious traditions can be reinterpreted in a manner that assists healing, corrects distortions, and expands vision."
"I think I did have a reputation for being grumpy. I don't think I'm grumpy. I have opinions. I have an independent vision. I am a purposeful person. But on a daily basis, I think I'm other than grumpy. I think it is a case where I am coming to do business and not there just to be flattered and cajoled and used."
"Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind."
"Many unsustainable behaviours are locked-in and made 'normal', not just by the way that we produce and consume, but by the absence of easy alternatives"
"The most important criteria for a DNC chair is going to be vision."
"Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us."
"Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves."
"It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth."
"The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world."
"It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance ... To perceive freshly, with fresh senses is to be inspired."
"Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole being. It means looking beyond the labels of things and discovering the remarkable world around you."