Idealized Vision Quotes

Essentially, I spent most of my childhood with my mother and my older sister, and I suppose I had rather a romantic vision of how things might be if there were men around; I saw myself in a country house with six children and a garden. That has never been achieved - and I still regret it.

Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.

The movie is usually, for me, something organic that grows all the time. I sit home and write it, and I'm in an isolated, four-walled environment, and I don't know what's going on. I just write it, and it's appearing in my head in some idealized way where every single moment works, and every little thing is perfect, because it's in my head.

People want to see the world the way they want to see it, not the way it is.

I grew up with a very romantic, idealized vision of New York, probably because of all the books I read and the movies I watched.

Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream.

What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.