Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Ridge

Time will tell if we can directly link him to a specific organization or not,

Jerry Reed

Times like this you think, 'Well, we can't help 100,000 people or over a million,' but if you can take one truckload and knowing it's going directly into the hands of those that are needing it now.

Trade secrets which go directly to the economic security of the United States, which today is tantamount to our national security,

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.

Valeria Golino

I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.

Imtiaz Ali

I want all my films to look distinctly different, like some other directors I admire. But in a way, I can't really take myself completely out of the movies I make.

Nicole Holofcener

To say you want to be a director is to risk sounding obnoxious, pretentious, arrogant, and I think women are more fearful of sounding that way than men are.

Nicole Holofcener

I'm being photographed, worrying about my hair - and yet here I am, I've directed a feature film, why do I care about the way I look? Who cares? Does Tim Burton care? Does Joel Coen?

Louis Leterrier

I'm one of the lucky directors that pretty much every movie I've done has started a franchise. But I never think this way. I think that's the way you break it, if you go, 'then at the end, at the end we'll see you later.' I was forced to do it in 'Clash of the Titans.'

We are hard to stop when we are hitting shots. Once I get in the zone it's hard to get me out of it. When we all get going and moving in the same direction we are hard to beat.

We are going to work directly with the pharmacies to make sure that people who fall into this situation don't leave a pharmacy without the meds they need or pay more than they need to.

Luke Evans

I guess maybe directors see a face that seems to have been lived in. I know that my face has been lived in, yeah.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Form as a goal always ends in formalism. For this striving is directed not towards an inside, but towards an outside. But only a living inside has a living outside.

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.

Abbas Kiarostami

Directors don't always create, they can also destroy with too many demands.

Abbas Kiarostami

I am still very surprised that I managed to make that film [Close Up]. When I actually look back on that film, I really feel that I was not the director but instead just a member of the audience.

Adam McKay

David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.

Adam McKay

All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

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

A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than 1pc of diseases: 99pc is how we respond to the world.

Carly Fiorina

I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.

Eric Shinseki

I do engage veterans. I meet with the veterans' service organizations monthly. It's a direct, no-holds-barred discussion. I travel to their conventions, where I speak to the veterans membership. I do travel. I've been to all 50 states. When I do, I engage veterans locally. So I get direct feedback from those veterans.

Cate Blanchett

I'm not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I'm always thinking, 'Surely this must be my last film.'

Lee Smith

I have always been interested in religion, especially in forms of ecstatic religion, where people are touched directly by the Spirit and go completely out of themselves.

We direct the implementation of this suggestion expeditiously.

Abraham Maslow

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

Ozzie Newsome

When you're riding high on a three-game winning streak, if you don't play well that fourth game, you can get your butt beat. And then things can go in the other direction for a while.

Three-quarters of the people in town were directly tied to citrus or indirectly tied to citrus.

Damon Galgut

Traveling is one of few zones of experience where you are not directly plugged into the world around you. You're not part of the society you're passing through.

Today's market may well face a struggle for direction. Uncertainty over oil prices and the future direction for U.S. interest rates has made it a somewhat choppy week.