If Barbra Steisand wants to make a picture called ‘My Pink Fingernail,’ the studios will go, ‘Gee, Barbra, what a wonderful idea! Money is no object! Take two years in preproduction and write the music, and you’ll direct.’
My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts – some good enough that I could see myself. But then it’s like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it.
I want to make stuff. I want to make movies and direct stuff and produce stuff and write stuff.
In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency.
I hope to direct a feature very soon. That is a big goal for me. I’m looking forward to hopefully getting that opportunity.
Things on a very small scale behave like nothing that you have any direct experience about. They do not behave like waves, they do not behave like particles, they do not behave like clouds, or billiard balls, or weights on springs, or like anything that you have ever seen.
Liberty and security are often in direct confrontation and must be balanced in a way that protects us without destroying what is worth protecting.
People think that direct address was invented by Ferris Bueller, but in fact, it wasn’t. It was invented by Shakespeare.
I’m not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it.
You can’t direct without a good crew.
I make a point to never, ever point out my physical flaws… this is advice I give to women as often as I can. People don’t notice the things we see in ourselves that we hate, so why direct them to it?
The songs that I like are the ones that you can’t visualize, that are just cries from the heart – those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful.
I don’t direct so that I can have an identity and so I can go on to CGI movies. I had a big identity as an actor, and that’s not what I’m looking for from directing. Directing is a whole different goal.
The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
I would love to direct an ‘Apes’ movie. It would be in the spirit of where I’m going with my career – avatars played by actors to say something about the human condition.
Mel is a great director because he’s not just a director, he’s an actor, so he knows how to direct actors. I loved working with him. He’s great as a director. He’s so intelligent. He’s generous. I really loved him.
I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn’t too excited about all the effects work.
The Homeland Security department doesn’t have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can’t direct anything except inside their bureau.
I think I related more literally to the early ‘Spider-Man’ comics from Steve Ditko because it could be upfront and direct about the problems of being a kid. He captured being a teenager so beautifully.
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
Gosh, I’d like to direct Our Town on stage.
Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.
I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there’s already so much narcissism flowing in this industry, I was like, ‘Really, one more?’ So I was against it at first. But I really love the idea of the direct connection – there’s no middle man muddling it up.
When someone at the State Department proclaims Facebook to be the most organic tool for promoting democracy the world has ever seen – that’s a direct quote – it may help in the short run by getting more people onto Facebook by making it more popular with dissidents.
I have fun acting, and I want to do more of it, and I want to direct my own movie.
A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer’s ‘The Normal Heart.’
The government should train and direct the people in their acquisition of political knowledge and ability, thereby enabling them to exercise the powers of election, recall, initiative, and referendum.
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
I got to direct a human interest sports drama – to this day, one of my proudest achievements in my career and a source of undying pride.
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
America is one of few advanced nations that allow direct advertising of prescription drugs.
There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.
In a movie you have all these logistical problems; all these practical problems. But you’re also going to have people come who can do things that you can’t do, and you get to direct their talents.
Initially, I had started doing theater, where the actor has a direct relationship to the audience. So, moving into film and television disconnected me. When you do a film, you start to get the character, and then it disappears for a year before it’s released and you get feedback.
I’m thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don’t mess it up.
On set I keep myself to myself; I’d rather the director speak up. I’m not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.
When I started working as a writer-director, that’s when he became Paul Thomas Anderson and I became Paul W.S. Anderson. Neither of us can write and direct an American movie under the name Paul Anderson.
I’ll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can’t underestimate band chemistry.
Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.
As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field leading inspections. It’s typically what you do at that level. I was trying to motivate, direct, find strategies.
Being an actor only came about because Arnaud Desplechin, the guy who did ‘Kings and Queen’, had this curious idea to think that I could be an actor, but I had never acted before, and I was supposed to direct my own film!
Your typical business just measures the metrics that have to do with the profitability of the business one way or another. But you can have metrics that measure employee happiness and the morale. You can also do direct customer surveys; you can track it over time. You can do supplier satisfaction scores as well.
I think Twitter is such a cool thing because it really is a direct line to the fans and for fans back to you, and it’s such a new thing. I think in the past there’s been usually fan mail and that’s really good, but Twitter, it gets an immediate response.
First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
Juries must, of necessity, be governed, in reaching many results through inferences from other facts, by certain laws of nature and human reason. They are often obliged to infer one thing from another, and this, whether that other be a fact direct or circumstantial.
We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe.
Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.
The chief modern rival of Christianity is ‘liberalism’… at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.
There’s a tacit belief that actors shouldn’t write books, they’re sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot of skepticism, and they shouldn’t do artwork or music. There are these invisible roadblocks to gain entree to these areas for actors, and you kind of have to crash through those invisible barriers.
Film schools are now nearly 50-50 male-female, and women are also well represented at festivals and in indie film. But what happens to them after they direct their first film or short? Where do they go? They certainly aren’t being given the same opportunities as their male counterparts.
Michael Landon was the biggest influence. As a child, I watched him write, direct, star, and produce a TV show every week. He showed me what was possible.
Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.
I’m really familiar with what Cardboard’s doing; it’s not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.
