Famous Quotes & Sayings

From our view point everything is heading in the right direction.

John Crowley

Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing I had to work hardest at was thinking in shots.

Eleanor Catton

From the very beginning, I had an ambition for 'The Luminaries': a direction - but not a real idea.

If anything, they've gone in the other direction, making zoning more restrictive. It's been frustrating.

If between the hours of 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., it gets two or less hours of direct sunlight, then you can really only work with shade plants. Two to four hours of direct sunlight, then you can work with mixed plants. If it's greater than four hours in that area, then you can work with a full sun plant.

I don't sense any real tension in terms of direction. They are all pretty much aligned.

I explored some other options around the league but felt most comfortable with the direction this team is headed in.

I enjoy directing something I've never seen. If I see it, it tends to influence my directing, and I end up second-guessing myself.

Salli Richardson

I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.

I don't think it's a small move in this direction; I think it's a huge move.

Al Davis

I don't think Sean Payton turned down the job because Sean Payton was never offered the job. Sean Payton has a lot of good credentials, but I don't know if that's the direction we're going.

From there, we will go directly to the United States Supreme Court.

Allison Anders

For me, the most exciting thing is that Jane Campion is a woman we can all really look up to. She doesn't have the body of work that some other directors do - no woman director does - but her work is so consistently original, wonderful, masterful.

Fortunately, the fire seems to be holding on the south end. We haven't had any major, significant acreage growth today. On the north end, we were able to get hand crews in there and do some direct attack.

For us as a program, we have to learn to win. I think we took a step in that direction tonight.

Giving is very directly tied to the economy. People's willingness to give as much as they possibly can is tied to whether they feel secure about their jobs and the fact that they are going to have to pay more in gas prices.

Henry David Thoreau

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

God directed me to do for gospel music what I'd been doing for the secular music. I had no peace with the secular side; there was something else tugging at me.

If it doesn't rain pretty soon and there's nothing I can see in the long-range forecast that we're going to get a whole lot of rain then I think a lot of our people are going to be in dire straights.

If we see you doing it, you're going directly to jail.

If the goal (of the hearing) was to get an objective understanding of the software industry, there are plenty of industry analysts who could have provided a more objective point of view than five of Microsoft's direct competitors.

He was calm, made the right reads. Tom directed the team well and was a true leader out there.

I always say, 'I love producing, but directing is my passion,' and for a while, I had to produce to support my directing habit.

James L. Brooks

I always think that the deal, once I do the script, sort of the experience I go through writing, which is everything you can imagine, but I always think it's the one thing I can do when I'm directing is say is that it's all about the actors, that I can say, 'We're all here to serve the actors.'

January Jones

He was very involved as a director for his actors and he was also stepping into the actors' shoes as well, and (did so) very well.

One of the great ironies of this nomination is that it requires the White House machine to stop and spin in the opposite direction than they did in Roberts.

Q'orianka Kilcher

I was sad but you know it's the first step in the right direction.

Julie Ann Emery

I would prefer to direct without also starring in the same project.

I would have liked to see it at least in a planning stage and what direction we were going.

I would hate to be the first executive director to play games on a Sunday.

I guess in Jacksonville, residents are responding quite differently than South Florida residents because they have not been through a direct hit.

If they can get you to go directly to their Web site that's pretty strong marketing. And, it's inexpensive for them.

If we could identify what that factor is -- and there's no guarantee we will, but if we can -- then one could direct your vaccine to elicit a response of that particular factor that is protecting them.