Famous Quotes & Sayings

It was put there by Public Information Director Connie Barron.

It was a step in the right direction. Even if it's a loss, it's going the right way.

It's a work in progress. I thought it was a step in the right direction.

What I aspire to is to have the viewer look directly at the subject, as if they're looking through a window at the real thing.

Colum McCann

Very seldom in my fiction have I directly used the stories people have told me. I think ripping off people's lives in fiction is dangerous. It also lacks imagination.

Trey Parker

I've gotten to a point where I wouldn't direct someone else's material. It would only be something totally original.

Tadanobu Asano

There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for.

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

Tinashe

My music is a direct reflection of the eclectic person I am. I don't like to be stuck in an R&B box.

David Fincher

The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.

We know he has done a very retail-oriented campaign, going right to individual voters and surgically finding those who will vote and vote for him. His message is directed at reminding voters what he has done for them.

Venice can become the place for confirming the importance of seven new directors that are now becoming, for everybody, the most important contemporary directors.

Ultimately, for them to sustain their growth and be successful in the long term, they're going to have to move in new directions and tackle some new product lines that they don't have and haven't historically done. That's going to take significant investment.

Don Bluth

How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?

Alan Rickman

The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

David Wain

I hope I don't just do the exact same thing my whole life. I also feel like it's really hard to make comedy. It's almost impossible for comedy filmmakers and directors to stay relevant as they get older.

Arthur Scargill

Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.

Denzel Washington

I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director.

Ludivine Sagnier

What I'm looking for is the variety of choices and the opportunity to work with great directors - that's what I'm looking for.

M. Night Shyamalan

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

The permanent status talks haven't begun. They're scheduled to end in a year. These are excruciating issues that are going to take a long time to negotiate. That is why I characterize the peace process in dire straits.

We've always been friends before we were even in a band. It's a good-natured feeling, playing together on stage every night. To us, hanging out is playing a show. We can read each other and know each other's moods, and we know the direction we're headed. But we also know nothing is set in stone.

We are looking toward students being disc jockeys and program directors in the near future. Who knows, the next great radio personality could come from Union County.

There are some encouraging signs. They're going in the right direction. Still, they've got quite a job in front of them.

We're in real dire straits in the marketplace right now.

As somebody who has been an executive producer on a television series, I can tell you that increasing director diversity is as simple as hiring more women and more people of color.

Laurie Metcalf

One of the hardest things about directing is just to be patient and remind yourself that you've been in Week 1 of a rehearsal process yourself, and you know what it feels like.

My all-time favorites that I always go back to are films by the director John Cassavetes. The movies he made, the work he left behind, have been a big influence for my work.

Jon Tester

When you start pulling out infrastructure that's been there over 100 years, that's a negative direction to be heading.

Bill Mumy

I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing.

We have a state where a growing number of voters are displeased with the direction of the state. If that's not a good set-up for a third-party candidate, I don't know what is.

Charles Bronson

Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.

Chad Lowe

Adrian Lyne is such an incredible director.