That I feel a desire, my friends, that we in this latter day of the world, in which light is fast spreading, that we should be willing to attend to those portions of the Scriptures of truth that direct us home to the foundation.
I don’t act, I don’t direct, I don’t design.
My refrigerator is powerful. In fact, it has a direct link to my overall well-being.
I’m the same guy at that podium preaching to the people on every single song. I’m not doing a dance for you on another song. It’s all a direct assault.
The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments.
If I have enough ego to say I’m a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.
It’s a very good question, very direct, and I’m not going to answer it.
Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.
I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I’m not going to direct a movie.
When you’re so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.
I certainly direct with confidence even if I’m not confident. I learned early on as an actor that confidence can be faked, and it’s not always a terrible thing to do. A lot of times if people feel you’re confident, then they’re confident.
I’d like to direct more operas.
I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.
It’s not good to be in a situation where people don’t want to direct you or don’t want to question something.
My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn’t going to work for me – I was quite clear about that in my early teens.
I want to be able to say, ‘you think you’re odd, I’m even odder and I made it – you can too!’ I want to direct, do more with ‘The Dance Scene,’ sign artists and just provide opportunities. I’m just getting started and having the time of my life!
When you think of all the things that are made from oil or in the chemical industry, if in the future we could find cells to replace most of those processes, the ideal way would be to do it by direct design.
Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I’m working in.
All the movements of our body are not merely those dictated by impulse or weariness; they are the correct expression of what we consider decorous. Without impulses, we could take no part in social life; on the other hand, without inhibitions, we could not correct, direct, and utilize our impulses.
I want to act for the rest of my life – and I also want to pursue directing. Watching Bill Condon direct ‘Twilight’ kind of made me think, ‘OK yeah, I really want to do this now.’ This idea that you can make an image in your head and be in full control of how it comes out – I thought that was really cool.
What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don’t fight war on our soil, we don’t have direct experience of it, so there’s an openness about the meanings we give to it.
We should see better and more direct measurements of economic well being.
I want to write, act, and direct!
The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.
What an amazing opportunity to do something like direct a movie and step out of your creative comfort zone and yet do something that is also so familiar at the same time. I was also just excited to have the chance to direct, which I may never get to do again.
If the right thing came along, I would absolutely direct something I did not write because I love the process so much, but we’ll see. I’m taking it day by day.
I’d love to direct, I’d love to produce. I’d love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.
I avoid Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and if I need to communicate with someone, I email direct.
I would always get a lot of work as a writer, but that wasn’t what I wanted to be. For me, I was only doing half of what I really wanted to do – write and direct.
All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.
I don’t think I could do what Woody Allen or Clint Eastwood or Ben Stiller do, where they direct a movie and they star in it. I would just be like, ‘Oh, I don’t even want to look at my face.’
You see, it took me so long, it was such a struggle, to move myself out of musicals – because I had had a success, nobody wanted to allow me to direct a non-musical picture. It was so hard. And the only way I could get it going was to become a producer myself.
Female service members are so integrated into the military, so critical and vital to all functions of the military, from combat service support to combat support, to direct combat, that we could not go to war as a nation – we could not defend America – without our women.
You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.
As an actor, I had noticed very vividly that very few directors know how to direct actors because they haven’t done it.
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
A bonus: You don’t have to diet to direct.
Some of the young kids look for one hit to be a star; that what they’re known for the rest of their life… I never wanted to be known as one thing; that is the reason I do classical theater, write, direct and the blessings God has given me… I want to share.
I’ve always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.
The combat exclusion policy was adopted during the Clinton Administration in 1994 and says women can ‘be assigned to all positions for which they are qualified, except that women shall be excluded from assignment to units below the brigade level whose primary mission is to engage in direct combat on the ground.’
Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
Clive Barker is just genius, and he’s incredibly gifted in so many different ways. He can write and direct and paint and do all these different things, and he can do them all extremely well.
Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.
I grew up when comics were only sold in food markets and news stands, so the direct market is vital to me. The best way to make it stronger is if everybody buys my comics in multiple copies before they buy any others.
My cell phone is the number one way for me to communicate with my fans. I love the direct connection I can make via social media whether I am on the road or at home.
Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct ‘Catching Fire.’ As a writer and a director, I simply don’t have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule.
I was keen to direct an action film, and when Reliance approached me for the remake of ‘Singham,’ I saw an opportunity to return to my first love.
I despise writing in general, but yeah, I love writing the stuff that I direct.
Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can’t do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that’s all a direct result of getting sober.
I actually then went on to direct an after-school special where one of the characters was deaf. They hired me without even knowing I had any connection to the community.
I’d quite like to direct. I don’t think it will happen, but my urge is that way inclined.
Chris Columbus, who directed the first two Harry Potter films and was the family comedy king through the ’80s and ’90s – ‘Mrs. Doubtfire,’ ‘Home Alone,’ etc. – has acquired rights to ‘The Cypress House’ and is working on the script himself, with intent to direct.
If you want to direct, you’ve got to work.
Firoz Nadiadwala is a close friend; he was the first person who asked me to direct a film for him. I would like to have him as my producer for my directorial debut.
To answer the question, though: I didn’t always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films.
Freedom can be killed by neglect as well as by direct attack.
One of the things I wanted to do was direct. There’ve been a couple of times that a director will walk up and say something to me, and all it does is make me mad. Inside I’ll go, ‘Well, that wasn’t helpful at all.’
