Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Rossellini

My father's films are often very slow for the modern audiences, which are used to a lot of editing. It's the audience that watches the film instead of the director dictating the reaction he wants from you.

Dennis Quaid

My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story.

Alex Graves

No director directs 'Game of Thrones' without reading all the episodes and knowing what's going on. All the episodes are written in advance, so you can do that, which is an important point.

Michael Brown

No. No. I'm still the director of FEMA.

Santiago Cabrera

My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there were small parts I could go up for, but the director gave me the part of Mozart, which was kind of the lead role. From then on I just loved it.

Bill Conti

Music is anti-intellectual. It's non-literal, and you have to find out what makes the director happy. You want to let someone hear what you're thinking about. Because if you get to the stage, and the director says "I wasn't thinking like that," then your score won't be in the movie.

Scott Ellis

My acting experience has been a benefit. What I learned from directors is how to listen to and talk with actors. I know how they think and what they need.

Joshua A. Norton

Now, therefore, the Directors of the company are hereby ordered to see that precautions are taken to make travel on said railroad perfectly safe by using a screw with at least twenty-four inches diameter.

Michael Posner

When I was at the Toronto Film Festival this week, I saw this wonderful Brazilian film called House of Sand. Since the movie was so terrific, and Delray has a large Brazilian population, I thought it would make for a nice addition. When I spoke to the film's director himself and told him about the Delray Film Festival, he instantly said yes.

A.J. Feeley

Last year, things were a little different than they are now, ... I guess if you're going to look for reasons, look for excuses, I guess you could say those.

Joe Hart

Modern technology ... I guess it does do some good.

Ferdi Heyneke

Monday was a very big day but the market is volatile and I guess there was some profit taking but industrials and some insurers are stable.

Joe Torre

My guess would be that this would be it.

Bob Mann

My guess is you can see this over and done within perhaps no more than a year.

R. Inge

My guess is that we'll see a strong opening here on the back of our strong resource market. We are a nation of rocks and trees.

Phil Dow

My guess is that value will have its day,

Dawn Willey

My guess is that's going to be an $8- to $10-million building.

Yossi Sheffi

My guess is that nobody is talking about this. I don't see a real level of preparedness within companies. In many ways, I don't think they even know what to do.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.