Best 182 quotes in «direct quotes» category

I had heard all sorts of stories about Woody Allen's directing - directorial approach. And some of them turned out to be myth. But, one of them was that he doesn't rehearse and another was that he doesn't really direct, if he doesn't like it...he cuts it out of the movie, or even replaces you.

I'll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both.

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it. And it's pretty irritating to get a movie on. So to complicate it by having more irritation as a director, I don't really need it. And because I direct a great deal still, but in the theater, I kind of get that anyway. Which is not at all to say I would never do it again, or it would never happen again.

I like to direct for the big screen.

I'm always trying to make movies. It's what I love to do more than anything. I love to write and direct.

I'm actively looking for things to direct again. I had such an amazing experience on this. I really am spoiled.

I'm currently trying to direct my own material.

I'm a straightforward person. I like to be direct with people.

I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up.

I'm too direct and too unsparingly impatient.

I'm very direct. It's part of my personality. I've actually grown into that.

I'm very direct. I don't have tantrums. I don't yell or shout. I do expect an awful lot from my staff, but no more than I expect of myself.

In direct contradiciton to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability.

I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction.

Instinct is the direct connection with truth.

I'm already a big enough target. I'm already more famous than most people should ever hope to be, and, as such, that has a direct effect on the size of the target that is on me. And you always do what you can to reduce the size of the target while not reducing your presence.

Improved productivity is another direct benefit of globalization.

In each of us dwells a pilgrim. It is the part of us that longs to have direct contact with the sacred.

I never want to impose my will on a community because even though I am the director of the movie, I can't direct them to be any more like themselves than they are. So it's very helpful to me because I can see the truth of their lives and their world right in front of me.

I only direct in self-defense.

It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker.

I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.

I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act.

It should not be harder for our daughters to direct than our sons. It should be an equal playing field.

It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track.

I've always said that movies are a direct mirror of the director.

I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

It was never my direct intention to do anything particularly medium-defying.

I want to direct. Definitely a goal of mine.

I was surprised to find out there was a direct line from my palm to my, my, hootchie.

I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.

I want to be in 'Funny Girl.' And I want Ryan Murphy to direct it.

I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.

I wouldn't want to direct. I see how much work it is.

I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab.

Knowledge is the eye which must direct the foot of obedience.

Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have.

I would like to remain an actress, but am very anxious to direct and produce.

My job is going to be to direct the film - I'm going to do it. And that's where my job ends.

Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces.

No reference is truly direct — every reference depends on some kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is.

Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can.

Of course, the strippers also take pains not to appear too innocent, valorous, or bookishly inclined. (In direct opposition to the Swayze Mandate of 1987, everybody puts Baby in a goddamn corner.)

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

Our mothers are our most direct connection to our history and gender.

Often intuition will direct you. If it feels right, it's probably right.

Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service.

Patience is the direct antithesis of anger.

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.