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.

Wassily Kandinsky

Color is a power which directly influences the soul.

Stunt coordinating is a good training ground for directing because you have exposure to all the departments in film.

The question for me with TV was a question of money. I guess if I had lots, I might have done it. But this isn't a big-money campaign, as far as I'm concerned. I've limited myself to direct mail and newspaper ads.

Tom Ridge

Time will tell if we can directly link him to a specific organization or not,

Jerry Reed

Times like this you think, 'Well, we can't help 100,000 people or over a million,' but if you can take one truckload and knowing it's going directly into the hands of those that are needing it now.

Trade secrets which go directly to the economic security of the United States, which today is tantamount to our national security,

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.

Temple Grandin

I had problems getting my words out. If people spoke directly to me, I understood what they said. But when the grownups got to yakking really fast by themselves, it just sounded like 'oi oi.' I thought grownups had a separate language. I've now figured out I was not hearing the hard consonant sounds.

Trey Parker

I've gotten to a point where I wouldn't direct someone else's material. It would only be something totally original.

Tadanobu Asano

There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for.

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.

Tinashe

My music is a direct reflection of the eclectic person I am. I don't like to be stuck in an R&B box.

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.

Valeria Golino

I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.

Imtiaz Ali

I want all my films to look distinctly different, like some other directors I admire. But in a way, I can't really take myself completely out of the movies I make.

Nicole Holofcener

To say you want to be a director is to risk sounding obnoxious, pretentious, arrogant, and I think women are more fearful of sounding that way than men are.

Nicole Holofcener

I'm being photographed, worrying about my hair - and yet here I am, I've directed a feature film, why do I care about the way I look? Who cares? Does Tim Burton care? Does Joel Coen?

Louis Leterrier

I'm one of the lucky directors that pretty much every movie I've done has started a franchise. But I never think this way. I think that's the way you break it, if you go, 'then at the end, at the end we'll see you later.' I was forced to do it in 'Clash of the Titans.'

We're lucky in Wyoming because so much of the trail is intact. We've seen just a huge increase in interest over the last 10 years. I think people are intrigued by the past. If you understand the past, it gives you some direction for the future.

We are seeing a carry-over of Friday's trend and that's probably encouraged by a similar sort of direction in the U.S. on Friday evening.

We are ready for negotiation, but they should talk to us directly and not through the media.

Howard Shore

I'm interested in good collaborations and in working with directors who bring something new and interesting out of you.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

On my set, people have to respect the actor's process. I totally respect what actors do. I give them whatever time they need, and I never scream out directions from the camera. I take the time to walk up to them and talk to them personally.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Talent has no gender. People are hiring young male directors right out of film school, off of a student film or off of a film at Sundance for millions of dollars. You can do the same with a female. It's not a risk about the work if you respect the film that they made.

Zadie Smith

I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.

The two most exciting things for me to get to work on 'The Wolverine' was getting to work with James Mangold, the director who directed '3:10 to Yuma' and 'Walk the Line' as well as getting to work with Hugh Jackman.

Colm Meaney

Talking about the show reminds you of things that you went through. So it's fun. When the show was on, I couldn't have handled it. I didn't want that direct connection.