Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Diane Paulus

As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.

Diane Kruger

A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.

Dennis Farina

Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.

Aaron Eckhart

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

Lesley Manville

I'd love it if doors open for me in America. There are directors I'd love to work with there. I'll always do theater, but I've got to pay the mortgage.

Taraji P. Henson

With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.

Robert Osborne

I went to California at a perfect time... when many of those people that I had admired so much in films were not working that much. They had free time on their hands to talk to... me, and they liked me because I knew so much about them.

Malcolm McDowell

I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.

Greg Gorbatenko

Like his father, Roberts still has family values but they're packaged in a younger and more aggressive personality. What Wall Street admires about Roberts is that he's made big acquisitions and successfully integrated those units into the company.

Jerome Charyn

Many of the writers I admire - Melville, Dickinson, Kafka - were virtually invisible during their lifetimes. Art, I think, often has to dance around in the void.

Sean Conway

Sen. Allard is aware the band is heavy metal and has strong 'political lyrics' in their songs, but he admires the band members for their standing up for what they believe in, and for their strong support of the Armenian Genocide Resolution.

Douglas Hurd

Neither the Iraqi people, nor other Arab governments nor indeed Islamic fundamentalists have any reason to admire or trust Saddam Hussein.

John Roberts

One reason people admire justice Jackson so much is that although he had strong views as attorney general, he recognized when he became a member of the Supreme Court that his job had changed, and he was not the president's lawyer,

Molly Antopol

One of the things I admire about longer stories is the way writers can work with dead time and slower, more idle moments - not only can they feel expansive, they feel lived-in; the unhurried pacing often makes the endings even more resonant and surprising for me.

Patrick Cox

One of his consistent traits, both critics and admirers would say, is that his honesty and integrity were second to none.

Jason Terry

I got a prediction right now: A Maverick will walk away with the title.

Dennis Goldford

Iowans tend to like mavericks. Grassley is pretty much a down-the-line Republican, but with a maverick streak.

Christopher McQuarrie

There is no 'Top Gun 2' in which Maverick is not the starring role.

Mike Dunleavy

The Mavericks are getting the short end of the stick.

Sonny Bono

I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.