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.

Amanda Marshall

I was really, really, really enthusiastic as a kid. I was up for anything. I was hugely into music and theatre. I was a big musical theatre kid; I loved reading.

Kevin Spacey

While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a child's imagination.

Paul Campbell

Whether or not a land is for sale weighs in hugely for criteria.

Arundhati Roy

In California, there are huge problems because of dams. I'm against big dams, per se, because I think that they are economically unfeasible. They're ecologically unsustainable. And they're hugely undemocratic.

Steven Shapiro

For the self-directed investor, the Internet is hugely significant.

Niranjan Shah

Everything is in place and we are hugely optimistic of taking the World Cup.

Rebecca Ferguson

I've been hugely inspired by the songwriting of Lauryn Hill and Tracy Chapman - on their albums, they really tell it like it is.

Nikki Rocco

which makes this picture for Universal and for Working Title a hugely profitable endeavor.

Brahma Chellaney

India's security will be hugely undermined, unless the trend continued.

Jeremy Bates

One thing that stands out is that the better shot I hit, the better shot he hit. I was playing serve and volley, and he had incredible passing shots from the most ridiculous positions.

Jeff Wachtel

One thing we've learned over the past three seasons is that there's an incredible pool of talented performers whose voices have yet to be heard.

Tony Duckworth

Four-hundred is a special milestone. This was an incredible victory to get that win.

Dionne Warwick

I've had some incredible moments in my life - thus far. I hope a lot more are coming.

Neill Blomkamp

On one hand, I think people are destined for something incredible if we don't wipe ourselves out, but I think we're going to wipe 90 percent of ourselves out.

James Kirkwood

I would have thought he would be there out of just plain curiosity. It was incredible that he was missing.

Bob Braman

She's going to be our leader. Kirsten Hagen has also had an incredible summer.

Peter Strianse

If they're able to prove this, it would show an incredible lack of judgment.

Chellie Pingree

If they put up something that just looks like window-dressing, it won't be supported by the public. This is an incredible moment.

David Maroney

Months may go by when we don't have much contact, and it seems we aren't as intensely involved with the district. Just because it's quiet doesn't mean we're not doing anything.

Vicky Groat

We had a very intense match on Monday (in the Hanover-Horton Invitational) so it was kind of nice not to have that tonight.

Renee Miller

(Future Cities) is a very intense project. It involves teachers, parents and the community.

John McDonald

one of the most intense individuals I've ever met in my life.

Elyse Stoller

She's really intense, but she pushes us to do our best. Our practices are really intense but fun.

Wendy Ward

She and her caddy take it to a very intense level. It's in her character. As much as I'd like to play the way she's playing right now, that's just not the way I'm wired.

Edward Kennedy

The only surprise is that the administration is surprised by the intense reaction of the American people.

Leo Buscaglia

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

Ezra Miller

When I found film, it was like, 'Of course!' It was this very intense realization that this is perhaps the most powerful, honed context that I've found.

Lauren Myracle

Sometimes I worry I'm writing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' for teenagers, but I'm not.

John Milton

Fled / Murmuring, and with him fled the shades of night.

John Hill

Mr. President, we just all want to thank you for this nomination,

Charles Spurgeon

This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness.

Charles Spurgeon

You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.

Diane Keaton

That's what I learned. I learned I couldn't shed light on love other than to feel its comings and goings and be grateful.

Dean Rusk

When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin. ... We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich!

Elbert Hubbard

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Carol Moseley Braun

Im committed to universal health coverage and education.

Jan Peter Balkenende

Freedom is a universal value.

Carl Rogers

what is most personal is most universal

Harold Bloom

Shakespeare is universal.

Maz Jobrani

You know, funny can be universal.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

In L.A., I live right across from Universal Studios.

Stephen Sondheim

Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money.