There’s nothing more daunting than a musical, but there’s also no more direct line to joy. Getting there, though, is like pushing treacle up stairs.
I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.
And we ought to work our diplomacy first and I think it’s a reason it’s going to respond increasingly to our diplomacy particularly with the president’s direct involvement in the peace process, and I think that’s extraordinarily important.
Unfortunately, many talented people in Hollywood find their values and politics do not reflect the content they create, and many movie themes are in direct contrast with over half of today’s American families.
The steep decline in America’s image and standing after 9/11 is a direct reflection of global distaste for the instruments of American hard power: the Iraq invasion, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, torture, rendition, Blackwater’s killings of Iraqi civilians.
Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema’s conventions.
I really feel like becoming a director came from other women saying, ‘Yeah, you can do this.’ I wanted to direct ‘Six Feet Under,’ and no, they didn’t let me.
When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
I’m just beginning to direct. For all intents and purposes, this is the first time for me.
I think I was, like, maybe frustrated for many years because I didn’t try to direct. And since I made my movie I’m just like, ‘It’s great.’
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
I would really love to direct one day. I think there are certain actors who love the character and the performance and that’s all they want to be a part of.
Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
I moved to L.A. to write and direct. I had no intentions of being in front of the camera.
I have no desire to direct at all. I know how much pressure it is, and, trust me, it’s so much easier and so much more fun to be an actor.
The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.
For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it’s hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director?
I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word ‘census,’ and people fall asleep.
When writing for the page, the focus is on the design – how the words appear on the page. I try to make it as direct and simple as possible.
In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.
Perhaps the most significant thing George Lucas did in creating ‘Star Wars’ was to fictionalize the Tao – to spark a universe where we can talk about the Force in objective terms and show it in direct action.
If acting doesn’t work out I’d love to produce, direct, or write.
The way that I sort of direct the writers is, let’s do the best story we can. Let’s not worry about production issues. ‘How much will that cost? How are we going to shoot that?’ Let’s not set up those constraints on the writing. I don’t think it helps the project to work like that.
America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed.
I believe there’s not a harder job in the world than being a teacher, and there isn’t a job with a more direct impact on the performance of our students.
I think tennis is very different than most of the other sports when you have the opportunity to go pro. For me, it was pretty simple. Tennis was always an individual sport, and your direct results determined where you could go and what you could do.
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
It’s a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I’m not going to drop the ball on my shift.
The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.
I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.
Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.
I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.
The country – or the government – is headed for bankruptcy. So we’re going to be continuing to speak out against corporate welfare as something that hurts everybody except those direct beneficiaries.
I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.
By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films.
I would love to direct some day. It’s a good job for a control freak.
I’m not so in a rush to direct just anything because I’m lucky that I can make a living so far as an actor and not have to worry about that as a director. And so I can be a little more choosy in things I direct.
If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they’re just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It’s like trying to build a house without any bricks. You need the script. I could build the house, but I have to know how.
I am a direct person.
In direct navigation, users type exactly what they are looking for in the browser’s web address field. This could be the exact domain name or web address. Millions of people do this, emphasizing the need for on- and off-line marketing and branding.
I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.
Anyway, in my writing I’ve always been interested in finding places to stand, and I’ve found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I’m writing about.
The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
I will direct one day, but I have a feeling that it will be very limited.
I don’t really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people’s hands. But I’m kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.
Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.
Unsettling signs of al Qaeda’s aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.
I’ve been competitive since day one. Even in little things as a child, like having a twin and a direct competitor for who makes better cookies.
I like to direct for the big screen.
I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn’t think my vote mattered because I didn’t have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.
There is a direct correlation between gardening and mental health, not just to maintain good mental health but to repair it as well – that’s anything in the gamut from depression to serious brain damage, schizophrenia or autism.
The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative.
