Famous Quotes & Sayings

There's a good program out there that just needs to be nurtured and expanded. Let's grow it. It helps people in a very direct way.

David Morse

There's a different kind of satisfaction in helping a director achieve, you know, something like The Green Mile, which I thought was pretty terrific.

There should have been preventive measures implemented at the schools when they first saw them going in that direction.

There's no surprise that the independent directors will recommend the proposal. I think the (reincorporation) will be approved,

Uwe Reinhardt

There's much less here than meets the ear. It's just a step in the direction that they want to go, which is to have a general shift of financial responsibility for people's lives away from institutions, be it employers or government, onto the shoulders of people themselves.

Mike Bryan

The Tour just doesn't seem to give (doubles) enough respect because tournament directors are trying to save money. But we're just going to keep fighting.

Michael Eisner

The trend seems to be going in the right direction, ... We're feeling better, the economy seems to be moving in the right direction.

The trend in the growth of loans to the private sector also seems to point in this direction.

The tone did take on a negativity that I didn't like and when you make the decision to go the other way as we did it very directly had an impact, you can see it with the tracking.

Chuck Hagel

The time for healing has arrived, and Congressman Peterson is the one to lead us in that direction.

We just look at this as a big step in the right direction.

We just thought it was important to provide something that spoke directly to that population.

We were playing too direct (in the first half). I explained to them that they had to start playing east-west. They had to spread the defense, and then we'd find the holes.

The public is frustrated and disappointed with what they see as a lack of progress in improving the quality of education. Because the issue is so important to them, (voters) want to see officials at all levels engaged, even if they're not directly involved (in education).

Constantin Stanislavski

The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

Clint Eastwood

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in a row in the early 30's and, although I was still in my 20's, I demanded and received approval of cast, story and director. I don't know how I got away with it, but I did!

Adam Brody

If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.

Rachel McAdams

I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!

Richard King

Also, I plan to screw something up on every movie I do so that I can learn from my mistakes and become a better director with each project.

We start with that, then schools can be moved in either direction. It's worked well for us for years.

Alex Cox

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

Matt Damon

The fact that Terry was directing the movie sold it to me,

Khaled Hosseini

The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.

Douglas Sirk

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

Donald Sutherland

I was so disappointed [with movie Forsaken], but maybe I hadn't talked enough with the director. I don't know. But, Kiefer worked it out. Kiefer took it and re-edited it. I don't know whether he talks about that. He's probably more discreet than I am because Jon is a friend of his. Now, it fulfills what I was hoping for, and what we were working on and doing.

Donald Pleasence

Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.

Claudia Cardinale

And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director.

Dolph Lundgren

Stallone is a pretty tough director. You don't mess with him.

Anthony Minghella

Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered.

Angelina Jolie

I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that.

Conrad Hall

There are a lot of directors who are knowledgeable about images, and others who aren't.

David Ayer

The hardest thing, as a director, is that it's never right. Nothing you do is ever right. It's never exactly how you envision it. Making a movie is about making it better.