Direct Quotes

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

I find it hard myself to feel justified to sing in a very politically direct way about war or social conditions because I feel so ignorant of a lot of it.

I love the act of writing. I like the quiet, internal aspect of it. If I lost track of that, I couldn't direct the same way. I couldn't be a director for-hire; it's just not my nature.

Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the script itself and the character was really interesting.

I love actors who are wonderful - like John Cusack and Russell Crowe, and wouldn't it be a treat to eventually direct them one day.

It's in trying to direct the traffic between Artiface [sic] and Candor, without being run over, that I'm confronted with the questions about photography that matter most to me.

Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.

Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.

Political statements are usually more direct, and it works with the upbeat music as well, for some reason, the directness of your statements.

What we do for others has a direct impact on how we feel about ourselves.

Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.

There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.

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.

When you are angry, you make bad decisions in direct proportion to the level of your anger.

A person's way of doing things is a direct result of the way he thinks about things.

We don't read people's wishes. The wishes are suppose to be direct communication to the Universe. Your interception will weaken the power of the wish.

A guru is needed not to worship, but to direct you.

I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.

Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself.

A leader can't move a country that's not ready. You can't make the waves, but when you see them coming, you can help direct them.

The last thing I want is to be (in a film role) is obvious, direct and offensive.

Whatever you accomplish in a lifetime will be in direct proportion to the intensity and persistence of your faith

I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.

At Jerusalem, I went to the mosque and sat down. A man asked me what I wanted. I told him I was a Muslim. Now I realize I can get direct contact with God, unlike Christianity or any other religion.

Manage your mind. When we direct our thoughts and words toward the outcome we most desire, we ignite grace.

The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave.

I have fun acting, and I want to do more of it, and I want to direct my own movie.

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying.

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

We must ever bear in mind --that apart from the will there is nothing good or bad, and that we must not try to anticipate or to direct events, but merely to accept them with intelligence.

I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.

I regard reduction in Federal spending as one of the most important issues in this campaign. In my opinion it is the most direct and effective contribution that Government can make to business.

I think you direct a movie just to express your own self.

If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to Christ Himself.

To do six to 10 episodes of high-quality writing, and then be able to go direct my own things, and do a movie, if it comes along, sure. I just want to act and do good work.

There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.

I'm inspired by that rawness in very direct communication. My work is not meant to keep people happy or give them an escape.

Black culture is very difficult to explain to people who don't have any direct contact with it.

If you want to become a better listener, however you need to learn to direct that energy and attention positively by concentrating on the person you're with.

Never take no for an answer. It took me 20 years between the time I wrote my first screenplay and the time I actually got money to direct a movie.

I sometimes think humor and satire are more effective techniques for expressing social statements than direct comment.

I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me who do that sort of work for me.

Leaders shape our visions of the possible and direct our energies toward it.

Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.

I think I've found my passion in life. I'm going to direct a couple of short film on hiatus. That's what I really want to do.

All right, I am often brash, rude and brutally direct. Someday I'm going to die and I don't have time to toe-dance around the periphery of hatred.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.