Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Walter Gossett

On the last day, I wound up doing everything from carting flowers into the house to directing traffic.

David Leitch

Stunt coordinating is a good training ground for directing because you have exposure to all the departments in film.

Vikram Rohit Shetty

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

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.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.

David Schwimmer

Directing is something I always wanted to do. I started when I was 13 directing scenes in high school and then plays in college with my theatre company.

Preston Sturges

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

Peter Jackson

I thought that there might be something unsatisfying about directing two Tolkien movies after 'Lord of the Rings.' I'd be trying to compete with myself and deliberately doing things differently.

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Kumail Nanjiani

The worst job I ever had was an office job that I had for six years, and that's nothing against the people who I was surrounded by, because they were wonderful people.

Ricky Williams

Lunch or dinner? Well, I work, so I'll say dinner, ... I have a job now.

Ricky Williams

Lunch or dinner? Well, I'm at work, so it'll have to be dinner. I have a job now.

Marc Warren

Life as an actor has toughened me up, and I've learned that you shouldn't take things too personally. Someone once said that to do this job you need talent, luck and a thick skin - which is so true.

Gary Mickelson

legal obligation to do their job and are not part of this dispute.

Martha Stewart

Many, many people have suffered. People have lost jobs. I am very saddened and very, very sorry for that.

Ruth Rendell

Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.

Kelly Meek

Scotty knows our system so well, anyway. He is doing a super job playing within what he has.

Martin O'Malley

Senator Mikulski has done an outstanding job representing Maryland in the U.S. Senate for nearly 30 years.

Xavier Niel

Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.

Neil Innes

Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.

Carl Reiner

We were all up there, Dick and Mary and Rosie and Larry Mathews and I looked around and I said, inadvertently, 'Look at this, we could do a show,'

Chauncey Billups

We're going to miss Larry Brown, but so many times it was just about Larry. It was always, 'Larry did this, Larry did that,' with the result that I don't think the players got enough credit.

Brendan Barnicle

Larry will go out of there in a pine box.

Shai Agassi

Larry is a very smart man. You can quote me on that.

Phil Jackson

Larry has been in this situation many more times than I have, ... It is very unique for me.

Ron Davis

Larry has a sister in Florida, and he took a week off in September to visit her.

Charlene Tilton

Larry Hagman is one of the nicest people on the planet. He is so wonderful, so loving, so giving.

Robert Ferguson

I feel like we're a potent offense - a lot better than 10 points in seven quarters, ... We just have to get something going.

Robert Ferguson

I feel like we're a potent offense -- a lot better than 10 points in seven quarters. We just have to get something going.

Gerard Warren

Give a lot of props up to the offense because they do keep us on the sidelines, well rested and ready to go on the field.

Mark Smith

On offense we executed well and because of it we got off some quality shots.

Jon Heesch

On offense we couldn't do anything. They were tough and they slowed us down. We only scored 16 points in the first half.

Jon Garland

I was strong. I was really strong. The offense took the pressure off me in the first inning.

Lamar Owens

I would have been satisfied with a one-point win. But to see our offense take off in the second and third quarters really made a statement we are on another level.

Rod Wright

Basically, it starts with him. He makes their offense go.

Glenn McAninch

We operated our offense the way we wanted to and we way out-shot them.

Eileen Caddy

Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now.

Dave Mustaine

Penelope Spheeris is a wonderful lady.

Josh Groban

I got to play a real D-bag lawyer, and comb my hair really awfully and kiss Emma Stone, so it was a really wonderful day on set.

Bob Roach

She's very confident. She's well-integrated with the other kids. She's a wonderful young lady.

Lisa Hall

She did what she could with what she had. She did a wonderful job.

Sean Connery

I don't think I'll ever act again. I have so many wonderful memories, but those days are over.

Valentino Castellani

We are having a party. A wonderful party.

Walter Benjamin

This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.

A. R. Ammons

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.