Direct Quotes
-
A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, but rather he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think but acts, and he feels how things must go more than he can explain it.
-
I think animation is a very truthful way to express your thoughts, because the process is very direct. That's what I've always liked about animation, particularly abstract animation. You go from the idea to execution, straight from your brain. It's like when you hear someone playing an instrument, and you feel the direct connection between the instrument and his brain, because the instrument becomes an extension of his arms and fingers. It's like a scanner of the brain and thought process that you can watch, or hear.
-
I'd love to direct commercials on Caribbean beacheswith luscious women rubbing on suntan lotion, but all I get arethese documentary-type things.
-
Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well and who doesn't.
-
When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice.
-
I followed Shoji Hamada, because I guess Alix MacKenzie and I, we both saw the danger that lay in planning things out on paper and then simply executing them. And with Hamada there was a much more direct sense that the piece had happened in the process of making on the wheel, and that was what we wanted to do with our work. We weren't always able to do it, though.
-
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
-
She has learned that her body is precious and it mustn't be offered carelessly ever again, as it holds a direct connection to her heart.
-
If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.
-
I'm just saying to everyone. The director does not direct the trailer. It's an edited version that takes so many moments of the movie, sometimes it's not even in the movie. The director does the movie. So don't judge the director based on the trailer. Please.
-
Seeing the play "A Lie of the Mind" clearly is part of why I wanted to direct it. I see hope at the end of this play. People talk about how dark the play was, but I feel like, if you really look at the darkness, you're able to go through it, and you realize that you can handle dark moments in life and that everything will be all right.
-
As I grow and get older, mature a bit, and work on my big boy voice a little bit, I definitely want to direct.
-
I'd like to direct more operas.
-
The only person over whom you have direct and immediate control is yourself. The most important assets to develop, preserve and enhance, therefore, are your own capabilities. And no one can do it for you. You must cultivate the habit of leadership effectiveness for yourself - and doing so will be the single best investment you will ever make.
-
A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.
-
I didn't want to be a director for hire. It really just took me a long time to learn how to direct and to feel up to the job.
-
What we do for others has a direct impact on how we feel about ourselves.
-
And I certainly intend to direct someday.
-
If [domain seizure] isn't direct censorship, I don't know what is.
-
I like writing for other people. I love it. It's great because you write it and then you hand it off to someone else. But in terms of directing, anything I direct will be something I've written or re-written. I'm in no crazy rush to direct.
-
I really want to have a really, really strong, one-sided opinion on something, and be connected to it and tell that story. Until I find that thing or that topic or whatever it is, I don't want to direct.
-
If Trump wants to corruptly direct the conduct of an investigation in order to out an FBI source who was helping our government investigate Russian interference in our electoral processes, well, Article II of the Constitution begins with these terrifying words: 'The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.'
-
The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
-
All of the things I've directed, I'm really emotionally close to. That's why I choose to direct them and spend years on them.
