Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Alexander Payne

You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration and discovery.

Norman Wisdom

Don't get me wrong: I'm overjoyed with my career to date. But perhaps I could have done more. Mostly, I just did whatever the directors told me to do.

We've been able to point people in the right direction and get them hooked up with locations, crews, whatever they need.

James Gray

What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience.

Claire Tomalin

Writers don't make good spouses. When I am writing, I'm not a good wife. I shut myself away, and all my emotions are directed towards what I'm trying to write.

Milan Mandaric

We're still expecting a response from Sheffield United to give us a green light to talk directly to Warnock.

John Spencer

We're sticking to what we can infer from our instrument, and we are not directly seeing temperatures warm enough for liquid water.

Bill Mumy

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

We are also looking for a person who can train and director our volunteers in this fundraising effort, particularly in identifying larger donors.

Rory Kennedy

With 'Women in Hollywood,' I didn't direct it, but I produced it, and what we did is followed the money of Hollywood and how that intersects with issues relating to women and, frankly, sexism.

W. S. Gilbert

We found historic letters showing that Lord Stanley directed his aid-de-camp to travel to England to purchase the Cup. That was an interesting historical find.

Daniel Andrews

We can directly measure water ice, and then we can fly right through the plume.

Rick Rubin

We felt Johnny's presence during the whole process through to the end. It felt like he was directing the proceedings, and I know that the musicians all felt that as well... More than once, Fergie and I would look at each other and say 'Johnny would love this,' because it was so good and so different from anything we'd done before, we knew he would be excited by what was happening.

Kelly Brown

We're just waiting for direction from the federal level.

Unless FEMA has a direct line to the president, the people of Hawaii and the nation are at risk. FEMA must be restored as an independent agency.

We're moving in the right direction. We're starting to get a lot of momentum.

We're moving in the right direction. At this point, that's all we can hope for.

With the January results, we have made a good step in this direction.

We're going to do some investigating to see if this event was directly related to her employment.

We explained our financial circumstances and the different direction we are going to take,

We're pleased with the results. We're headed in the right direction.

We're pleased with the overall state results, because the trends are all in an upward direction.

We're far more direct in getting at what we think matters. The urgency is palpable.

Through an exhaustive search, facilitated by Ralph Stow of Plano and the ACC Executive Director search committee, with representatives from Allen, Frisco, and Plano, we were able to examine the top talent in the country.

Tony Raines

With what they're going through and what they have at their disposal, it's going to get us pointed in the right direction sooner than later.

Charlton Heston

Above all, a director has to be a good captain.

Charlie Rose

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

Leslie Caron

It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me.

Kristen Stewart

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.

Tao Okamoto

My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.