The reason I took Early Edition – besides the fact that I liked it – was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It’s a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies.
When I look back I can’t believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer’s Choice.
Favored Nations is a long-term commitment. Our hope is that those who are passionate about real musicianship will want to hear and own most of our albums. We will set out to attain the same direct relationship with our customers that we have with our artists.
I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.
Warren Beatty is a great director. I wish Warren would direct another film right now, because I’d love to do another film with Warren. I think that ‘Dick Tracy’ is an outstanding film in its own right.
I want to be in ‘Funny Girl.’ And I want Ryan Murphy to direct it.
I can’t do pieces I only admire technically. I have to feel some direct contact with them.
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
I’ve got a role in the new Billy Bob Thornton movie that Billy Bob wrote and is going to direct called ‘Jayne Mansfield’s Car.’ I only have four scenes, but I have as much dialogue as anybody in the movie.
Having grown up watching my father direct films and having worked with him and my brother, I know how films are made, how shots are taken.
You kind of forget he’s Peter Jackson in a way because he’s so normal; he’s lovely. It’s like having a friend direct you, except it’s Peter Jackson.
Would I like to direct? Maybe one day.
I’d love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I’d love to direct. One day. I’m learning a lot on the set of ‘The Good Wife.’
We need a direct repudiation of Barack Obama and everything for which he stands.
I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab.
I want to do theater and I am looking forward to doing more Television and Movies. I also want to direct some plays in theater workshops for people with disabilities.
If I was to direct Ron Howard, I guarantee you, I would put him through a living hell every day. I would demand so much of him. We wouldn’t quit until he leaves the set crying. Weeping! Spent!
The ability to manage your emotions and remain calm under pressure has a direct link to your performance.
My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.
When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years.
I want to direct what I feel is interesting – not what is supposed to be my zone.
I’m probably only going to make 10 movies, so I’m already planning on what I’m going to do after that. That’s why I’m counting them. I have two more left. I want to stop at a certain point. What I want to do, basically, is I want to write novels, and I want to write theatre, and I want to direct theatre.
Our elected officials would do well to remember that the most prosperous countries are those that allow consumers – not governments – to direct the use of resources. Allowing the government to pick winners and losers hurts almost everyone, especially our poorest citizens.
MySpace gives our members the ability to reach such an incredible range of people and have direct contact with them. I’m not sure how that devalues friendship so much as it expands the range of potential friends you can have.
Kellie Overbey gave me this play called ‘Girl Talk.’ I read it and totally fell in love with the characters. I told her she had to let me direct it and put Marcia DeBonis in it.
I like my drawings to be direct. I don’t generally work on them for too long, but that doesn’t mean that they are not works in their own right.
Gluten intolerance and celiac disease are direct results of American agriculture policy and, specifically, the government’s wading into the food arena.
If I don’t direct a movie at some point, I’ve failed personally.
Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.
My dad’s sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal – his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.
The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people’s voice.
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent’s greatest strength – not his weaknesses – to place him immediately on the defensive.
What’s it like finding out Denzel Washington wants you to direct his next movie? It’s like getting a phone call from Muhammad Ali or Michael Jordan saying they want you to coach them.
Yes, I definitely plan to direct at some point.
I think every writer has got to direct. If you don’t direct, you can’t protect your work. The only way to ensure that it’s going to be as close as possible to what you put down on paper – and what you see and hear in your head – is to do it yourself.
Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they’re huge oil suppliers.
I’ve been very lucky to have been able to act, write and direct and not have to choose just the one thing.
The intention behind the high difficulty of the games I direct is to evoke a feeling of joy and accomplishment in the player when they overcome these challenges.
Listen, I’m from Belfast. We’re not polite people. And it’s language. We’re direct.
The weird thing about having an alligator on set is that you can’t be in the direct line of sight, or they might start charging at you.
The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers… It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
Films were always a passion for me but it was when I saw ‘Salaam Bombay’ that I decided that it was film direction that I was interested in. That is when I decided I wanted to direct films.
I honestly never wanted to direct. It was only when I started to work on ‘Alexander the Great’ that I realized I had to direct. I saw something so specifically in my mind, I could not leave it to someone else.
In 2009 we increased the cash in Quinn Direct as we had in 2008. We increased the cash in it in 2010. The outstanding claims were €20m in March 2010 but Quinn Direct had more business in the U.K. than in Ireland.
I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.
My personality just steps away, and I’m in direct connection when I’m on stage.
My music is a direct reflection of the eclectic person I am. I don’t like to be stuck in an R&B box.
My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is based on that.
There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.
I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it’s just easier.
That is what the intuition is for: it is the direct messenger of the soul.
When I went to Spain, the tourism minister told me a lot of people want to come to India, as they love Bollywood, but they don’t have direct flights and find it difficult to get visas on arrival that is currently offered to only citizens of nine countries.
I guess I would model myself after the Bill Condons, the Frank Darabonts and the David Nutters if I were to direct a feature, which I would love to do, by the way.
Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone with aspirations to write and I guess, sooner or later, that person will have a stab at writing something about the Holocaust.
One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.
We all have our ways of handling fear and managing trying; jumping in or climbing down, a direct approach or a delay, joyful or miserable, a spirit of adventure, or God help me, get this thing over with.
My background is in modern dance. I was a dancer and a choreographer before I was a director, and in dance, you can’t cheat. Your leg goes up in the air, or it doesn’t. So when I direct, I’m a big preparer.
I’ll probably pursue doing more movies, but not horror or movies with killers in them. I’ll try to stick to happy movies. I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she’s still doing the same thing.
