Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jonathan Ames

I don't know that I've gotten much feedback directly from the literary world; sometimes I doubt even the notion that there is a literary world, though I guess there is or was.

I am excited about the new guy de Villiers, ... We need a new direction...we are worldwide very well known. It shouldn't be so difficult.

Raul Ibanez

I am ecstatic. Seattle is where I wanted to be...it's where I've always wanted to be. It feels like home to me. I am excited about the direction of the team, and am very, very happy to be here.

Catherine Keener

I've worked with a lot of great directors.

Carter Burwell

Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.

Alan Cumming

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

We should recognize that we're seeing a generational evolution in work style. Instead of trying to stop it, we need to look for ways to work with them more securely. Ultimately, IT is a service function for the staff. They're giving IT direction in the way they want to work. They're actually out there trying to do more work for the firm.

Joel Salatin

Gluten intolerance and celiac disease are direct results of American agriculture policy and, specifically, the government's wading into the food arena.

Brian Geraghty

After all these years, I'm starting to learn what a good director does, and I know what a good one does with actors: help us navigate finer instincts, help us when we're wrong, encourage us when things are great.

Azzedine Alaia

I want to speak directly with a star, not her stylist.

Stephen Lang

My favourite dish is pollo ajillo; my favourite drink is a good Rioja with it. And as for my favourite music, oh God - there's so many things I like. Well, I'd say it's 'Walk of Life' by Dire Straits.

George Lucas

I realized why directors are such horrible people - in a way - because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

Madonna Ciccone

If you have children, you know you're responsible for somebody. You realize you are being imitated; your belief systems and priorities have a direct influence on these children, who are like flowers in a garden.

Lyle Lovett

I've gotten to work with some wonderful directors and people who have been great teachers to me.

Fede Alvarez

I thought that Hollywood was just for geniuses and that directors come from three generations of directors. I was worried that I was not up to the challenge of making a movie. Then realized that all a director has to do is know what he wants to do.

Jack Nicholson

I worry from the moment I take a job. I worry about how I'm going to do it, if I can do it... Then I walk on set and the director says, 'Roll', and all of a sudden, all of it disappears and it's all happening, and I relax, and I'm doing what I do, and I'm not even thinking about it.

Albert Brooks

I never wanted to be a director.

Conrad Hall

There are a lot of directors who are knowledgeable about images, and others who aren't.

David Ayer

The hardest thing, as a director, is that it's never right. Nothing you do is ever right. It's never exactly how you envision it. Making a movie is about making it better.

Donald Sutherland

I was so disappointed [with movie Forsaken], but maybe I hadn't talked enough with the director. I don't know. But, Kiefer worked it out. Kiefer took it and re-edited it. I don't know whether he talks about that. He's probably more discreet than I am because Jon is a friend of his. Now, it fulfills what I was hoping for, and what we were working on and doing.

Constantin Stanislavski

The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

Clint Eastwood

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in a row in the early 30's and, although I was still in my 20's, I demanded and received approval of cast, story and director. I don't know how I got away with it, but I did!

Anne Hathaway

When Chris Nolan is your director you are like, "I trust that, I'm wrong."

Angelina Jolie

I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that.

Angelina Jolie

I've learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who's an extremely economical director.

Andrea Arnold

I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.

Andrew Dice Clay

When I do any stand-up, you're the writer, director, and producer. You're alone.

Rachel McAdams

I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!

Richard King

Also, I plan to screw something up on every movie I do so that I can learn from my mistakes and become a better director with each project.

Matt Damon

The fact that Terry was directing the movie sold it to me,