Direct Quotes

For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.

Declan Donnellan
The last thing I want is to be in a film role is obvious, direct and offensive.

Bill Murray

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
- Kind
- Humans
- Cat
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
- Process
- Able
- Danger
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.

Vincent Van Gogh
- Feels
- Littles
- Direct
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.

William H. Macy
Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

William James
- Together
- Action
- Feelings
Eventually, everyone said, Why don't you direct? It would save time. And that's how it started.

Melissa Joan Hart
- Said
- Would
- Started