Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Cronenberg

I don't mind writing so I didn't find that difficult, it's just a question of finding the time to do it. I kind of like the direct connection with the fans actually, it's pretty neat.

Bev Perdue

I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

Brooke Elliott

I think a lot of times we're so told in our world that marriage is everything, and having a partner is everything. If you look at our movies and things, it's all directed around that love, and if you don't have that love, how sad you are.

Bill Paxton

I got to direct a human interest sports drama - to this day, one of my proudest achievements in my career and a source of undying pride.

The great directors managed to dissolve and disappear into the work. They make other people look good.

Andrew McCarthy

So I wanted to explore all points of view of that, not just the girl's but his point of view as well. Only by directing it could I explore all the points of view.

Bill O'Reilly

One night, I just woke up and I went, 'Killing Jesus.' And I believe, because I'm a Catholic, that comes from the Holy Spirit. My inspiration comes from that. And so I wrote 'Killing Jesus' because I think I was directed to write that.

I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.

Anupam Kher

Being a popular director or actor's son can be frightening in this industry. What if you are not able to make it?

This sends a message -- not only to the players, but also to the fans -- about the direction the team is going and that we've identified key players.

Jamie Lee Curtis

The parameters are such that I don't get offered a lot of work. I'm sure most directors hear my list of don'ts and say forget it.

Dieter Zetsche

This really, I think, is a whole new direction this market can take.

Romola Garai

There are American directors I'd really like to work with, but I don't know how much I want to be sitting in my house, doing the rounds of meetings with CEOs. You have to be really hardworking to do all that, and I'm lazy.

When you have a storm which is a direct hit, putting water down in the quantities that hit storm Katrina dumped on New Orleans, there is nowhere for the water to go except in that basin and fill that basin up.

Sean Penn

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.

There are incentives, but in the U.S. -- with 85 percent of people subscribing to paid TV services -- it's hard to see direct over-the-air TV service having much impact in the future.

Mark Leibovich

When you live in Washington, D.C., you do get a sense, in a very direct way, of the durability of our government and really, the greatness of the American system.

There has to be proper supervision. The director might expect a dog to jump from a height of six feet. We can't play with the lives of our livelihood. We treat them like our children. The guidelines must be followed strictly.

There hasn't been an undergraduate director for one of the main stage plays for quite some time. It's really an honor to be able to do this.

We knew that a win like this could get our team in the right direction.

We're not planning to go 24 hours, but we are taking a step in that direction.

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.

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.

We have greatly expanded the adapter library. Our adapters speak directly to those applications.

Michael Dell

We have found through internal growth and a disciplined focus on our direct model and by partnering with the world's leading services companies, we can essentially see this growth in an internal fashion,

Yash Chopra

When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.

When people do what they're passionate about, there's this energy that's output. And when that energy is directed at the community, everybody wins.

We will focus on finding qualified outside directors for our companies.

We would never know if his life would have been saved had he been able to take the helicopter flight director to the hospital.

Peter Jackson

When a documentary is being made, it usually focuses on the director or an actor. We felt that it would be more interesting to really dissect a film down to its smallest components.

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.