Famous Quotes & Sayings

Spike Jonze

As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborate with other directors that much.

Ryan Coogler

I've directed things that other people have written before, and I've written things and given them to other directors. So I'm very versatile in terms of that, and I enjoy all of it.

Ricky Jay

I've been really lucky in terms of film projects with people, terrific actors and also writers and directors that I really respect.

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

We had two members who wanted to retire to director emeritus status. After six years, I think they were ready to pass the torch on.

Sanjay Gupta

You are actually seeing some motivations and movement in Iowa in the right direction. That needs to be a national priority.

We have called in the Malaysian High Commissioner today to register our consternation directly with governmental authorities over Mr. Anwar's trial and sentencing,

Shaul Mofaz

We have to make every effort to direct resources to strengthen the settlement blocs, ... We must do everything possible to strengthen the residents' feeling of security.

We have to keep things going in the right direction now. I like how we are playing. The guys are going at it very hard. I like how we are playing.

Thomas Jefferson

Were we to be directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

We're very, very pleased with the outcome of the vote. It shows that our shareholders were pleased with the directors who were up for reelection...and that's very gratifying.

We're up with the roosters. If we're just shooting a day scene, we leave when we lose the sun, at 6 or 7. If the director wants to keep everybody there and shoot a night scene afterwards, we might stay 'til midnight. It's not a factory job.

With the fire spreading in so many directions it will be a long time before we can get it contained.

With the Fed stopping, and policy elsewhere in Europe and Japan going in the opposite direction, it should be relatively positive for the euro and yen.

We're really headed in the right direction and it's showing today.

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.

With all the focus on reading, I think states are going to move in this direction. The question is when, and where the leadership will come from.

We're cooperating fully, as the president and the vice president directed us.

Andrew Zimbalist

You also then have to acknowledge that when the team performs poorly, it'll go in the opposite direction.

Larry Brown

We don't see it as a crisis, we see it as really moving in a positive direction for the people we serve.

Dennis Kelly

We really wanted to get back in and put our people back to work. That was the real thing. Not just our direct employees but all our contracts, stevedores, the longshoremen, you know these guys need to work and that was our whole goal.

We really pushed pretty hard all session and feel like we just couldn't get the Senate to move enough in the direction of small businesses.

We have some season left to play, and, as I do with every coach, we will take the season at the end of the year, then discuss my evaluation of it. I do that with every sport that I am directly responsible for.

We are trying to establish if there is any direct evidence linking the suspects to the bombings.

We had good people with great personalities. That gave us good team chemistry. Everybody pulling for the same direction makes it a lot easier to be successful.