Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're far more direct in getting at what we think matters. The urgency is palpable.

Through an exhaustive search, facilitated by Ralph Stow of Plano and the ACC Executive Director search committee, with representatives from Allen, Frisco, and Plano, we were able to examine the top talent in the country.

Tony Raines

With what they're going through and what they have at their disposal, it's going to get us pointed in the right direction sooner than later.

We know he has done a very retail-oriented campaign, going right to individual voters and surgically finding those who will vote and vote for him. His message is directed at reminding voters what he has done for them.

Venice can become the place for confirming the importance of seven new directors that are now becoming, for everybody, the most important contemporary directors.

Ultimately, for them to sustain their growth and be successful in the long term, they're going to have to move in new directions and tackle some new product lines that they don't have and haven't historically done. That's going to take significant investment.

Don Bluth

How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?

We're in real dire straits in the marketplace right now.

As somebody who has been an executive producer on a television series, I can tell you that increasing director diversity is as simple as hiring more women and more people of color.

Like any director working today, I started out when somebody took a shot at hiring me. It's how we all start out - male, female, white or minority.

Laurie Metcalf

One of the hardest things about directing is just to be patient and remind yourself that you've been in Week 1 of a rehearsal process yourself, and you know what it feels like.

My all-time favorites that I always go back to are films by the director John Cassavetes. The movies he made, the work he left behind, have been a big influence for my work.

Jon Tester

When you start pulling out infrastructure that's been there over 100 years, that's a negative direction to be heading.

James E. Faust

I have sometimes questioned the advice and direction I received from my parents and grandparents, but I never questioned the fact that they loved me. I learned that they were in a better position to know more about right and wrong than I did from my limited understanding and from my limited experience.

Joyce Banda

I am tremendously inspired by many women around the world who work under dire circumstances to make a difference for their families.

Leslie Caron

It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me.

Kristen Stewart

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.

Tao Okamoto

My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.

Chad Reed

This was a step in the right direction for me. I will take it any way I can get it. Something told me it was going to get ugly tonight.

This was a step in the right direction.

I think people forget that a lot of directing is just real management of the size of a production.

Gary Sinise

I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.

Gary Sinise

Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.

Emraan Hashmi

I am tired of kissing on screen. I have to do it because it is synonymous with me. Also, the producers and directors want to add that element. I don't give it too much importance.

Eric Braeden

There are some directors I hear about in nighttime or some I used to work with who walk around like gods.

Charles E. Wilson

The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them.

Lori Petty

I think many actresses want to be famous and want to be the prettiest, and that wasn't my trek. I was thinking, 'I gotta get out of here... how do I get out of here?' I like acting, but I like directing more.

I did nine months in 'Mrs. Klein' in New York, then four months on the road. Then I did a movie directed by Philip Haas, who did 'Angels & Insects'. We shot 'The Blood Oranges' in Mexico for six weeks.

Khloe Kardashian

I don't care if you marry someone who works at the grocery store or someone who is a director of a company; everyone should have their own identity.

Karine Vanasse

As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.

James Franco

There's a tendency, when you're directing yourself, not to give the performance as much care, because you feel like there's too much focus on yourself, or that all these people are just standing around setting everything up, waiting for you.

Jason Alexander

The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.

Barkhad Abdi

When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.