Direct Quotes
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My energy is good; it is directed at training hard.
Dillian Whyte -
Something about not waiting for the laugh of a laugh track allows you to take lines that otherwise might be seen as just direct jokes, and make them seem realistic.
Mitchell Hurwitz
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It was always my intention to direct. I went to film school. And then I wanted to know how to work with actors, so I went to acting school. And then by the end of that, I caught the bug.
Benn Northover -
Carl Rinsch has a good balance between the visual and the drama and action, so I thought if he's going to direct, we can make a new, epic film. My fear was gone when I met him.
Hiroyuki Sanada -
The fun you get from golf is in direct ratio to the effort you don't put into it.
Bob Allen -
I'm currently trying to direct my own material.
Tom Skerritt -
Significant progress in the solutions of technical problems is frequently made not by a direct approach, but by first setting a goal of high challenge which offers a strong motivation for innovative work, which fires the imagination and spurs men to expend their best efforts, and which acts as a catalyst by including chains of other reactions.
Ernst Stuhlinger -
When the governing representatives of the people legalize the shedding of innocent blood (as a for-profit business, nonetheless) then they have placed themselves, and those they represent, in the direct line of God's judgment.
Tony Evans
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You can be very honest and direct with people, respectfully. I never do anything maliciously; I simply give my honest opinion.
Charlamagne Tha God -
I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that.
Catherine Hardwicke -
You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.
Spider Robinson -
I'm kind of an all-in person. If I'm going to direct I'm going to take the challenge on.
George Mastras -
It's not easy to direct in another language, especially comedy.
Eugenio Derbez -
I think it's very hard to direct foreign language actors, but Carl Rinsch found a great way. A special super visional way.
Hiroyuki Sanada
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They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic.
Marilyn Monroe -
in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.
George Eliot -
I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance… I’ve always wanted to be able to convey figurative imagery in a kind of shorthand, to get it across in as direct a way as possible. I want there to be a human presence without having to depict it in full.
Cecily Brown -
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.
Warren MacKenzie -
In the Middle East you get that sense that leadership decisions and the local powers that are working around us all the time have a direct effect on the quality of life... and that quality of life is obviously very different between a kid who is growing up in a refugee camp and somebody who is living in Tel Aviv.
Eran Riklis -
What you need to know to direct a movie is of such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.
Tony Gilroy
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I'm really keen to go back and do some theatre, but I can't afford to at the moment because we're getting married in September. And then I'm hoping to direct a film at the end of this year, and that means a year of your life without pay.
Richard Roxburgh -
Going forward, I have four different ways of approaching what I want to do - I can generate my own material by writing. I can produce, direct, act, or do a combination of these things, mixing it up.
Noah Wyle -
A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.
Gautama Buddha -
You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.
Michel Gondry