Gary Ross Quotes

The world is unpredictable.

The world that we live in isn't uniform-looking, and the future that we're headed toward isn't uniform-looking.

When we were doing 'Five Centimeters Per Second,' at that time, Japan was in an era when it felt nothing would ever change, so I wanted to make a movie that reflected that feeling.

We simply have never been able to predict what our next challenge will be.

I went to university every day for five years. I thought, 'I must - must - go to school.' Look, my hands, these are like guns. When you have guns, you can relax. But in the future, you need something else.

My generation, we're so smart and opinionated, and we know the world we want to live in; we know the future we want. We're such a liberal, forward-thinking generation that's been held back by an older generation that doesn't understand it, doesn't want the world to progress quickly because of old ideologies.

With 'At What Cost,' I was basically reliving a time in my life during the go-go era. I remember when it was popping for my generation and how that felt and what it looked like.

It's easy to look at kids sitting around a campfire looking at their phones and to think, 'What a shame.' But I think they're going to be more advanced in terms of communication than my generation.

We're kind of a guinea pig generation.

But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not too awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be.

My house says to me, "do not leave me, for here dwells your past." And the road says to me, "Come and follow me, for I am your future." And I say to both my house and the road, "I have no past, nor have I a future. If I stay here, there is a going in my staying; and if I go there is a staying in my going. Only love and death change all things."

You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.

This age is fraught with limitless perils, as well as untold possibilities.

The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.

For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

I think the next century will be the century of complexity.

What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?

We are entering an increasingly dangerous period of our history. But I'm an optimist.

And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.

Who knows how long this will last, now we've come so far so fast.

I think we're in a very exciting time - visually, I think we are. I've not got a crystal ball. I'm not saying I know what the future is at all. In some ways I'm getting quite pessimistic about the future, but in other ways I think it might get better. We are moving into very big changes.

When you talk of revolution ... you never talk of the day after.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be faster changing and more unpredictable than the present.

As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that the unexpected shows up far more regularly than we ever dream.