Direct Quotes
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For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.
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One thing I'm passionate about is directing. I've always wanted to direct.
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I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that.
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Notwithstanding the work of all kinds done by steam-engines... their theory is very little understood, and the attempts to improve them are still directed almost by chance.
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It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.
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If [domain seizure] isn't direct censorship, I don't know what is.
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I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have to take off the writer hat and let the director direct.
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My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence each other in the measure that everything we do is linked to whatever we are, which includes whatever we have done or are doing.
Etel Adnan
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I'd like to direct more operas.
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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.
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My whole game plan was to direct movies. I knew if I made a reputation in theater, I would get offers.
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They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic.
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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.
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When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice.
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I'm kind of an all-in person. If I'm going to direct I'm going to take the challenge on.
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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.
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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.
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There's always darkness around, and if you focus on the darkness, you don't know where to go. But if you direct yourself at the light - there it is! It's right there.
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The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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As I grow and get older, mature a bit, and work on my big boy voice a little bit, I definitely want to direct.
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in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.
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If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.
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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.
