Barry Levinson Quotes

In America, innovation does not just improve our lives. It is the way we make our living.

Innovation and commerce are as powerful tools for creating social progress as they are for driving technological advancement.

There's money in the old stuff, but there's more wealth created in the new growth areas.

I just think it's ridiculous to be dogmatic and be caught in the past. You have to be open, aware, nimble and flexible about changes in the world.

You can be sure that over the next 10 years, you'll see something that you did not think was possible.

Italy will start the future. Because in the last 20, 20 years, Italy discussed only about the past. "Oh, the past is wonderful in Italy." Look, look Palazzo Vecchio. The most beautiful place in the world, in my opinion, I think this is incredible place. But the past is not sufficient. Is not enough. We need the future. Because we are Italians. And Italy is not only a museum.

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

I have always advocated for funding and programs that increase our productivity and competitiveness

I don't like to go beyond modernity because you think girls might be like that in five years, but in five years what I see now is going to be old; we are always going to go somewhere else. You have to bring a few novelties within what will remain.

I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.

I think it takes a little bit of crazy to make a difference in this world.

We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to move forward.

I think what I'm trying to build is a reputation for evolving and for change. Because of the rate of information that we have access to at this point, it's almost hard not to be ever-growing.

Traditional thinking is all about "what is" Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.

Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.

I think change is always a good thing. Change keeps things moving.

The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

I think the world is changing and all that matters is that I'm creating things.

Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze.

I think people get too comfortable, in just doing what they do every week. And I'm all about challenge and change, and I like to read the audience.

You think I live in the past. You don't understand that I actually change with every era, I always have as best I can

Oh, things always get better. Tomorrow will always be better. Just think about it . . . is there any time in history in which you'd rather live than now?

Many of the things that seem impossible now will become realities tomorrow.

If we want a new future that does not look like our past, we must make new choices in the present.