Famous Quotes & Sayings

Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do - freedom of expression is something I celebrate.

Bernard Hill

I had a really good time working with Jim Cameron. A lot of people didn't, but I did as I got on with him really quite well. For a director who spends most of his time looking down a lens or in the digitisation studio or working out some graphics, he is actually very good with actors.

Bryce Dallas Howard

My first time I directed a play was 'No Exit,' a play set in a subway.

Bryce Dallas Howard

Directing 'When You Find Me' was one of the most creatively rewarding endeavors of my career.

There are a lot of question marks about the strategic direction that they are going in. Is this still a sale or not?

Carice van Houten

Most directors that I've worked with - I've worked with before, especially in Holland - and they know that I'm somebody who talks and asks, and talks, and talks, and talks and questions and turns things around. I'm like a little cat, walking around my little nest until I find my place.

I make a point to never, ever point out my physical flaws... this is advice I give to women as often as I can. People don't notice the things we see in ourselves that we hate, so why direct them to it?

Dick Costolo

I try to spend a lot of time with people outside my direct reports. The view from the top is totally distorted. If you only spend time with your directs, you have no perspective on what's really going on.

When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. We used to make these silly, stupid short films, which, looking back now, were probably horrible.

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.

Dabney Coleman

I have worked with some great directors.

Clark Gregg

I've never seen a movie director who was happier to be directing a movie than Dave [Mamet]. His sets, everyone who's ever been involved with one of them will tell you of the funnest, funniest sets you can be on.

Tony Scott

An established film director can just pick up the phone and say to a star, 'Hey, are you interested in doing a commercial?'

Chris Henderson

We pick up the phone and talk to the Secret Service, if not daily, then once a week. We have a direct line over to our friends at the Secret Service.

We pay people directly for their submissions, and then we also have various programs to reward our loyal contributors and keep them working with us. This is our latest effort to further reward them.

When Katrina hit, I had only one thing in my mind as a Slow Food leader: finding a direct way to help small farmers, artisans and fisherman get back to work and sustain themselves and their families.

Javier Lopez

While some scientists have suspected that large introns might not be removed in one piece through direct splicing, no one had identified how this could happen. Now we have identified a way,

While not directly related to Yahoo!, such news flow raises the profile of questionable Internet practices, and we think it increases headline risks for the group.

Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.

Stephen Moyer

It's so funny when you're actually directing because things start popping that you don't expect to pop, and something that you think is going to pop, maybe doesn't quite have the impetus that you thought it might.

Marco Rubio

We can't stop talking about the importance of our values and our culture. We can't stop talking about them because the moral well-being of our people is directly linked to their economic well-being.

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.

Dane Cook

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

We are changing, you have to, with the times. It's a different era than it was. This is the direction we want to go in now and how we handle things.

We can take a routine procedure, we can direct you to drive from Sesame Street to Smith Street, and evaluate whether the officer stays in lanes, stops at lights. Or it can be a pursuit situation.