Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Peter Morgan

The first and primary requirement for me in a director that I'd want to work with is: do they love writing, and do they love the collaboration process with writers?

We have a lot less money to spend on fire and police and other direct services.

Mark Zuckerberg

I actually don't read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

Mark Zuckerberg

I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It's a pretty good test.

Maximilian Schell

When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.

Matthew Bourne

I would like to have directed Hollywood musicals in the '40s and '50s.

Typically, they are high-level witnesses who can give direct evidence of what he was doing.

Today's verdict is one step in that direction.

Three-quarters of the people in town were directly tied to citrus or indirectly tied to citrus.

Damon Galgut

Traveling is one of few zones of experience where you are not directly plugged into the world around you. You're not part of the society you're passing through.

Today's market may well face a struggle for direction. Uncertainty over oil prices and the future direction for U.S. interest rates has made it a somewhat choppy week.

When I leave here, I'll have a direction to go.

We need to stay focused and keep going in a positive direction.

We know the direction we're headed in isn't working, and I think you wouldn't all be here if you didn't want more. More profit, more business, more foot-traffic. This Main Street program has worked for more than 1,800 communities.

Honeysuckle Weeks

Acting's incredibly enjoyable, but sometimes it doesn't feel quite enough. I've also written a script about the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. This will make me sound like a female Kenneth Branagh, but I can't think of anything nicer than directing myself from a script I wrote.

Unlike some cities, our parking officers have to do a lot of other things as well, like direct traffic.

We can all see the ethnic and sectarian identities taking root and growing, with the real potential for dismemberment that this direction implies,

Brad Pitt

I would say that the directors that I've liked the most are all curious in nature - curious thinkers. They're all big questioners, I would say, first and foremost.

Tahar Rahim

I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.

Tahar Rahim

With 'Eagle of the Ninth,' every shot was extremely planned and organized. The director was like, 'Do this!' And I say, 'How was it?' and he says, 'Good.' It was very odd. I would never know where he was headed, or even if he was shooting me at a close-up or from a distance.

Brian Cashman

We'd like to see what (Phillips) can do, ... That's our initial thought and we think he'd do very well if given the chance. We're not locked into it, but it's a direction we're looking at.

We would leave a few big trees, but our direction was to get those suckers out of there.

We want to communicate to the parents and the general public . . . of the direction we're going.

We don't know if the operational tempo is going to go up, down, or stay the same. We don't know what the number will be or what the direction of the trend will be.