Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthew Bourne

I would like to have directed Hollywood musicals in the '40s and '50s.

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.

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Patrick Warburton

Never met Levinson. Ever. He directed those American Express spots for us for Seinfeld, and I was off on some guest spot that I didn't even want to do... and I got talked into doing it.

John Patrick Shanley

Women consume, and they must be directed what to consume, or they may identify you as lunch.

Then, with supporting documentation in hand, that person can be directed to the assistance.

Paul Schrader

It's an old-fashioned romance of the highest order, a real melodrama, which I wrote and directed and financed. Nobody paid me to do this film. If a studio had made it, everyone would be saying that I had whored out, but in fact I had to fight to raise the financing, so if I did whore out, I whored out to my own melodramatic side.

It's terrorism, terrorism, terrorism, terrorism. It's what all the funding is directed towards. New Orleans shows the result when known problems aren't addressed because we're fixated on something else.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The administration of government, like guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust

A set of universally enforced rules and regulations directed at increasing the safety of cheerleading should be implemented.

this is not directed at any particular region or country.

Atal Vajpayee

A meeting ground will have to be found. Our efforts will be directed towards that,

They had been putting the same percentage increase on each quarter, and in an unusually low quarter like last year that didn't' work, ... So we directed them to take down their second-quarter estimates through our guidance.

This is the fourth time I've directed it in 15 years.

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.

Bryce Dallas Howard

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

Patti Smith

As I go through life, I can see why my mother directed me that way, or why my father counseled me in that way. But some things you're open to when you're young, and some things you need to find out for yourself. I think that that's pretty universal.

Alex Graves

Especially as a director on 'West Wing,' I directed a lot of different things in a lot of different ways and really stretched my wings.

Lily James

People talk a lot about, 'You're a Disney princess! You're Cinderella!' and this and that. But for me, it's all about the fact that I worked with Cate Blanchett and was directed by Kenneth Branagh. That's the 'Cinderella' story for me.

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.

Jeff Garlin

Directing is really my favorite thing to do, but if I never directed again, I'd be okay if all the work I did was good.

Doorknob: Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.

Bill Nelson

Sometimes we get lost in seeing the entire forest for the particular trees, but I think we need to pull back and see that this threat of radical terrorists is now being directed not only at us in the homeland, but it is being directed at a source of energy upon which the western industrialized world has become dependent.

I've seen a marked increase over the last two, three years of violence directed toward staff.

Penny Marshall

I've directed seven movies and know a thing or two about dealing with unexpected crises.

Stanley Tucci

I've directed a film set in the '50s.