Evan Goldberg Quotes

In high school and college, I'd set a bunch of goals for myself. I wanted to be the lead effects supervisor on one of these really big, innovative visual effects productions, something on the scale of a 'Star Wars' movie. And I wanted to work on a project that wins the Academy Award for best visual effects.

There was a time when a studio executive would really love something and have no proof at all that it would work and just do it because they believed in it. That's how 'Star Wars' happened.

I know it's a big gamble, but I want to do good films.

I never had a plan B; I would walk around with my head up in the clouds like, 'I'm going to be a famous singer/rapper person one day.'

Dream big, talk big, and turn your faith loose!

Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture.

When all of your decisions are based on economics, you end up with a sameness of vision. You're not taking the risks, you're not exploiting the passions of your creators. You're manufacturing product for a huge vending machine.

If your dreams don't scare you, you aren't dreaming big enough.

How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I had perused, and pictured in my imagination a big wheel run by the Falls. I told my uncle that I would go to America and carry out this scheme. Thirty years later I saw my ideas carried out at Niagara and marveled at the unfathomable mystery of the mind.

You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality

You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.

To have big success, you must have big dreams, and you must be willing to take a chance.

My tone and my style are reflected in the movies I choose to make. I want to make big movies. My dream is to be Jon Favreau or Ben Affleck.

Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe

I try to reach for the stars because if you say you want something small and it happens, you don't believe it. So I try to say something wild and crazy.

These people get to the top because they have to, because inside them burns a dream too big, too ever present, too demanding to be denied.

Did you ever build a castle in the Air? Here is one, brought down to earth and fixed for the wonder of ages.

I have aspirations of making a big, historical epic. I don't know if I'll ever get the money to do it.

At the end of the day, you can decide whether you want to be an employee with a great attendance record, getting promoted to ever better titles and working on interesting projects - or whether you want to attempt to do something spectacular - this be or do should be a question you never stop asking yourself - for the next 20 years, and beyond.

We have no intention of failing. The only question is how great a success we'll have.

Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference.

I do love making films. I want to be a filmmaker that grows and progresses and does keep trying to push myself. I think that's it... and a bit of confidence maybe.

To achieve big things you have to have big dreams.

I don't have any dreams or aspirations or goals I want to meet music-wise, so there's nothing to keep me from being level-headed.

You can NEVER rise higher than your expectations of yourself. Expect the BEST!