Famous Quotes & Sayings

The two most exciting things for me to get to work on 'The Wolverine' was getting to work with James Mangold, the director who directed '3:10 to Yuma' and 'Walk the Line' as well as getting to work with Hugh Jackman.

Brian Cox

I've directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn't make a habit of it because it's too consuming.

James Gray

The actor always must be in the scene, not above the scene. To communicate any larger ideas is my problem; it's how the narrative is constructed and directed that hopefully does it.

Matthew Bourne

I would like to have directed Hollywood musicals in the '40s and '50s.

Ryan Coogler

I've directed things that other people have written before, and I've written things and given them to other directors. So I'm very versatile in terms of that, and I enjoy all of it.

Thomas Jefferson

Were we to be directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

Patricia Richardson

I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble with me because all of that energy was directed in a positive way.

Mikhail Bakunin

Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.

Melissa McCarthy

I would love to be directed by more women.

Who directed the music portion to be separated?

We're cooperating fully, as the president and the vice president directed us.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I have never directed anything for the stage. I studied for three years in the theater, and it was a very, very scary experience to direct live, being so vulnerable without the possibility to control things, to be so exposed.

Jill Soloway

For me to be able to punch above my weight creatively, to actually take a stand for what I was doing, I had to take on everything. I had to be the person who says, 'I wrote it. I directed it.'

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.

Her vision is a lot of what you see in WREN today. She's been very passionate about WREN and has really directed it.

He has directed a review of this program and ordered no further grants be distributed until that review is complete.

Melanie Mayron

I directed some movies in the past, and I'd still love to do that. You know, the whole thing is a labor of love, I think.

Jonah Hill

I directed my first music video for Sara Bareilles. I like writing and directing. I co-wrote '21 Jump Street' and I'm in that. To me, they all inform the other one. I think writing makes you a better actor, acting makes you a better writer, directing makes you better at both. To me, I'm just trying to learn as much as possible.

M. Night Shyamalan

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

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.

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.

I did nine months in 'Mrs. Klein' in New York, then four months on the road. Then I did a movie directed by Philip Haas, who did 'Angels & Insects'. We shot 'The Blood Oranges' in Mexico for six weeks.

Catherine Hardwicke

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

Jacques Chirac

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

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.

William Sadler

It used to annoy and frustrate me to have to come in and audition. I would say to my agents, 'Haven't they seen this film and this film and this film? They know what I look like... They must.' Until I directed an episode of 'Roswell.' And all of a sudden, I realized why that was such an important thing.

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?

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.

Marc Crawford

Our focus is playing better and better together. It's a matter of getting our energies directed and focused in one area.

Steve Alford

Out of respect for me and my program, I hope all questions are directed at this year's team. For those of you that have that incredible urge to go elsewhere, out of respect for you, I have this comment: My entire focus and energy is helping my team win a Big Ten championship and get ready for the NCAA Tournament. This is my only concern.

Starr Smith has finally directed a literary light on the personal history of Jimmy Stewart. ... It's needed and wanted.

I think the vulgarity of it shouldn't have been directed at anyone.

Kyle Brown

I think the veto threat (against the pension bill) is directed primarily at special relief for the airlines.