Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Joubert

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

James E. Faust

I have sometimes questioned the advice and direction I received from my parents and grandparents, but I never questioned the fact that they loved me. I learned that they were in a better position to know more about right and wrong than I did from my limited understanding and from my limited experience.

We hope to talk to our group, and see what direction they want to go, ... Then we will let Mr. Marra speak and we know he will have some good information.

We didn't win, but it was a major victory today. I feel we're probably headed in the right direction. We talked about finishing fifth and that was our goal, so we feel good.

We've seen our vehicle donation drop by over 40 percent this year, and it's all a direct result of the tax law change.

Catherine Hardwicke

The fact that men and women are nominated this year in films that women have directed is good for women filmmakers generally,

The fact a one-page paper has generated this level of discussion underscores the paucity of direct scientific information that exists on the effects of management intervention following natural disturbances.

D. B. Sweeney

The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.

Jacques Chirac

The real blackmail is what Chirac has done. I am very disappointed that Chirac has influenced and directed the meeting.

Harmony Korine

When I'm directing films, I mostly try to create an environment on set that mimics what's in my mind as to the tone and feel of things. I try to create a place where you feel that anything's possible.

Mark Waters

When I'm directing actors, I often find myself slipping in sports metaphors, like: 'Don't go for the punch line here, just put it up on a T-ball stand so she can hit it out of the park.'

The P and O directors recommend unanimously the DP World revised offer and look forward to putting it to stockholders.

Scott Aukerman

I get inspired when I look at Tom Lennon, who did 'Reno 911!' for six seasons while writing huge movies and directing and also doing other pilots; he did that FX pilot, the 'Star Trek' thing.

Terry Zwigoff

For a long time, there was this rumor that I turned down doing 'Austin Powers,' which is not true. While they did send me the script, I don't think I was ever a serious consideration to direct it. I'm sure they probably sent it to 20 others as well.

Thomas Perez

When we lift the wage floor, it not only betters the lives of those whose wages are directly affected, it also lifts the economy as a whole.

Barkhad Abdi

When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.

Arthur Cohn

It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.

Craig Kilborn

Our top story, in 'Threat Matrix Reloaded' news ... Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Muller held a press conference today to announce that Al Qaeda is planning attacks somewhere inside the United States at sometime in the future. So go about your normal lives, but with a vague sense of foreboding.

Elizabeth Taylor

On the film where I didn't get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him.

Elia Kazan

I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director.

Elia Kazan

I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.

Eli Roth

Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.

Nancy Gibbs

There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.

Nancy Cartwright

Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.

Kevin Spacey

The more shows that are produced, the more writers are hired, producers are hired, actors are hired, directors are hired, it means the more people will get employed. It's better for the economy. It's a fantastic thing.

Mike Birbiglia

Directing your first film is like showing up to the field trip in seventh grade, getting on the bus, and making an announcement, 'So today I'm driving the bus.' And everybody's like, 'What?' And you're like, 'I'm gonna drive the bus.' And they're like, 'But you don't know how to drive the bus.'

Mike Birbiglia

I majored in screenwriting and playwriting in school - and wanted to make films as a career. But when I directed my first short in college - which was called 'Extras' - I lost thousands of dollars and made an unsatisfying and incomplete film.

Misha Collins

For me, to be perfectly honest, the part of my brain that was stimulated by directing was much more exciting than a typical day of acting.

Nikki Reed

I think for women especially, writing and creating your own role, producing, directing - having some control over what you do is really important. We can pave the way for other women to send what messages they want sent.

Do you imagine Sergio Leone with a philosophy? Come on! He was a primitive of movies, a great director on set.

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.

Diane Cilento

If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You were whisked about and shown things. I did work very hard though.