Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're really headed in the right direction and it's showing today.

Baz Luhrmann

There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.

Roy Blunt

The Keystone Pipeline is one common-sense step in the right direction to help put more people back to work, reduce prices at the pump, and position our nation for greater energy security now and in the future.

Preston Sturges

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

Patricia Richardson

I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble with me because all of that energy was directed in a positive way.

Mikhail Bakunin

Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.

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.

Peter Jackson

I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible.

Some directors don't say much. Michael Mann, for example. I remember on 'The Insider' he never had much to say. He would do a scene, just kind of nod, and then set it up to do it again. And you might do a scene 10 or 12 times or more, the same little 31-second bit. And you could tell he wasn't satisfied, but he wouldn't say much.

Pinchas Perry, the director of 'The Chicago 8,' offered me the role of the judge, and he did not know that, 35 years earlier, I'd played a judge in the theater production. So life has its own little twists and turns.

With all the focus on reading, I think states are going to move in this direction. The question is when, and where the leadership will come from.

We're cooperating fully, as the president and the vice president directed us.

Andrew Zimbalist

You also then have to acknowledge that when the team performs poorly, it'll go in the opposite direction.

Larry Brown

We don't see it as a crisis, we see it as really moving in a positive direction for the people we serve.

Dennis Kelly

We really wanted to get back in and put our people back to work. That was the real thing. Not just our direct employees but all our contracts, stevedores, the longshoremen, you know these guys need to work and that was our whole goal.

We really pushed pretty hard all session and feel like we just couldn't get the Senate to move enough in the direction of small businesses.

We have some season left to play, and, as I do with every coach, we will take the season at the end of the year, then discuss my evaluation of it. I do that with every sport that I am directly responsible for.

We are trying to establish if there is any direct evidence linking the suspects to the bombings.

When you're in the noose, maybe that's dire straits. We come out tomorrow and we play. Who says we can't win four in a row? Who says they can't lose four out of five? Until you're mathematically out, you go out there and play ball.

We had good people with great personalities. That gave us good team chemistry. Everybody pulling for the same direction makes it a lot easier to be successful.

Nick Lowe

I work very hard on getting the songs ... direct and examined,

Jackie Cooper

I would love to have a good director working with me and going through the early stages of putting a play together with me.

Johnny Crawford

I would love to direct a western. I love taking photographs and I'm always fascinated with angles. Also, my father was a film editor, and I have a talent for thinking of things that aren't always in a script.

Andy Serkis

I would love to direct an 'Apes' movie. It would be in the spirit of where I'm going with my career - avatars played by actors to say something about the human condition.

Melissa McCarthy

I would love to be directed by more women.

Ken Stringfellow

Most folks don't know about it. But I thought it was worth a shot, as I could direct my fans to it via my Web site.

Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays.

Why would you pick someone who was director of press relations for the most disliked, discredited vice president since Spiro Agnew?

Saxby Chambliss

whoever is the next director is going to have to be open to serious reform.

Robert Holden

You can go in any direction and paint a dire picture.

The 48-hour stoppage is aimed at CIS staff and CIS directors but unfortunately there will be an effect on some customers,

James Gray

The actor always must be in the scene, not above the scene. To communicate any larger ideas is my problem; it's how the narrative is constructed and directed that hopefully does it.

Peter Bergen

That was a direct correlation. Most of the time there is no correlation.