Famous Quotes & Sayings

Starr Smith has finally directed a literary light on the personal history of Jimmy Stewart. ... It's needed and wanted.

Marc Crawford

Our focus is playing better and better together. It's a matter of getting our energies directed and focused in one area.

Steve Alford

Out of respect for me and my program, I hope all questions are directed at this year's team. For those of you that have that incredible urge to go elsewhere, out of respect for you, I have this comment: My entire focus and energy is helping my team win a Big Ten championship and get ready for the NCAA Tournament. This is my only concern.

I think the vulgarity of it shouldn't have been directed at anyone.

Kyle Brown

I think the veto threat (against the pension bill) is directed primarily at special relief for the airlines.

Janus particles may be useful for directed drug delivery.

Clara Mamet

I wrote and directed a movie called 'Two - Bit Waltz'. We just wrapped. It was a blast, blast, blast.

James Gray

The actor always must be in the scene, not above the scene. To communicate any larger ideas is my problem; it's how the narrative is constructed and directed that hopefully does it.

Dinah Sheridan

Lionel had never directed before, but, as an actor, he was sensitive to the reactions of actors, and he did a magnificent job.

Melanie Mayron

I directed some movies in the past, and I'd still love to do that. You know, the whole thing is a labor of love, I think.

Jonah Hill

I directed my first music video for Sara Bareilles. I like writing and directing. I co-wrote '21 Jump Street' and I'm in that. To me, they all inform the other one. I think writing makes you a better actor, acting makes you a better writer, directing makes you better at both. To me, I'm just trying to learn as much as possible.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I have never directed anything for the stage. I studied for three years in the theater, and it was a very, very scary experience to direct live, being so vulnerable without the possibility to control things, to be so exposed.

Her vision is a lot of what you see in WREN today. She's been very passionate about WREN and has really directed it.

Jill Soloway

For me to be able to punch above my weight creatively, to actually take a stand for what I was doing, I had to take on everything. I had to be the person who says, 'I wrote it. I directed it.'

God directed me to do for gospel music what I'd been doing for the secular music. I had no peace with the secular side; there was something else tugging at me.

Jackie Cooper

I got schooled over at NBC on a soap opera, and I had a Sunday-afternoon show, an hour show sponsored by the Ford Foundation, a documentary, half live with film integration. I directed that.

He was calm, made the right reads. Tom directed the team well and was a true leader out there.

He has directed a review of this program and ordered no further grants be distributed until that review is complete.

She is so smart, it's scary. She's very much a theoretician, but it's always directed toward what's practical and possible.

The two most exciting things for me to get to work on 'The Wolverine' was getting to work with James Mangold, the director who directed '3:10 to Yuma' and 'Walk the Line' as well as getting to work with Hugh Jackman.

Brian Cox

I've directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn't make a habit of it because it's too consuming.

Nicole Holofcener

I'm being photographed, worrying about my hair - and yet here I am, I've directed a feature film, why do I care about the way I look? Who cares? Does Tim Burton care? Does Joel Coen?

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Form as a goal always ends in formalism. For this striving is directed not towards an inside, but towards an outside. But only a living inside has a living outside.

William Sadler

It used to annoy and frustrate me to have to come in and audition. I would say to my agents, 'Haven't they seen this film and this film and this film? They know what I look like... They must.' Until I directed an episode of 'Roswell.' And all of a sudden, I realized why that was such an important thing.

Mike Birbiglia

I majored in screenwriting and playwriting in school - and wanted to make films as a career. But when I directed my first short in college - which was called 'Extras' - I lost thousands of dollars and made an unsatisfying and incomplete film.

Bryce Dallas Howard

My first time I directed a play was 'No Exit,' a play set in a subway.

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 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.

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.

Finally they ... directed police to the bodies.

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.

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.

Melissa McCarthy

I would love to be directed by more women.