Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Brown

You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.

Annette Bening

With movies, so much of it is, 'Who is the human being that is going to be directing it?' Because it is their medium. In a way, you are serving the director, and when it is someone that you feel you can have a lot of confidence in, it can make a big difference.

Annette Bening

A lot of directors in my experience are very receptive. They see what you do first, and then they want to find a place to put the camera, and they tweak you here and there.

We've been playing hard and practicing hard all season, but we've been very inconsistent in games. This was a big step in the right direction for us. I thought a lot of guys stepped up today and did a lot of positive things.

Anton Corbijn

Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.

The graph is heading in the right direction.

Brittany Bowe

When I'm starting a race, I just completely narrow down my vision and focus on what's directly ahead of me.

Ben Katchor

There's something exciting about weekly strips in that you're following the way the story reveals itself to the writer week by week. All the possible directions it could have taken are there; it's a kind of participatory reading that I think books discourage.

Ami Ayalon

To pull out of Gaza is not a policy, it is a step. Whether it is a step in the right direction toward a two-state solution or at least a step toward hope, we don't know.

While the RBA might engage in occasional bouts of jawboning, we see little prospect of the RBA moving in either direction for some considerable period. That, indeed, was the main message out of yesterday's monetary policy statement.

We want to wait and see what direction we want to go in.

Bob Dole

We are excited about the direction of this campaign,

The reason they want Mrs. McFadden on, Judge, is they think that she's ... going in (their) direction. They want Mr. Rein off this jury.

Mahmoud Abbas

fire all directors of the security services who failed to fulfill their duties.

Finally they ... directed police to the bodies.

Brendan Gill

Express doesn't necessarily mean faster. It just means direct -- direct to the bridge.

Colin Powell

fails totally to move us in the direction of a peaceful solution.

But overall, I just think they're a program headed in the right direction. They also have a good reputation for sending people on to four-year schools afterwards.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I feel terrible for directors of TV because all the episodes have to look the same. They make a great series for five or six years, and then when it's canceled, they can't break out on their own.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I am not like Hitchcock, directing the reaction of the public or the audience. I don't like that. I think this is some kind of fascism - 'You need to react like that.' No. No. It's not like this; everyone needs to react as he can.

Clint Eastwood

You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who's directed, because an actor who's directed understands all the problems your production is going through.

Clint Eastwood

Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don't move fast, but I just keep moving.

The governor's image is a negative drag and it is directly related to how people are going to vote on these propositions.

The government, when it settles a case, ordinarily seeks jail times for officers and directors and high executives who are implicated in the conspiracy. I know that it is something that the government tries to get and will try to get it in this case, no doubt.

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.

Viggo Mortensen

What keeps the film from being by-the-numbers has a lot to do with David. A lot of directors would have made an exploitation movie.

Carrie Preston

Kellie Overbey gave me this play called 'Girl Talk.' I read it and totally fell in love with the characters. I told her she had to let me direct it and put Marcia DeBonis in it.

Carole Bouquet

The problem with movies is that you see from the first day - you're on a train, and if the movie is not going in the right direction you know it right away. Sometimes, you can't get off the train, and the whole experience is painful.

Melanie Mayron

With episodic, kind of one-hour directing, they always have guest directors come in, so they don't have the same person week after week. You get a break.