Direct Quotes

only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.

There's always darkness around, and if you focus on the darkness, you don't know where to go. But if you direct yourself at the light - there it is! It's right there.

When I direct I try to keep it a unique design of my own. Naturally you're influenced.

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

A place has almost the shyness of a person, with strangers; and its secret is not to be surprised by a too direct interrogation.

Yeah, the whole 'One Tree Hill' experience made me realize I wanna write, and produce, and direct as well as act. I'm interested in all facets of the industry.

I've constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct me.

The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above.

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

I don't know if I'll ever direct, but producing is dipping my toe into my behind-the-scenes world.

The correlations between real life experience and the storylines in novels are never as direct or simple as they might seem.

5 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.

Music stimulates within us direct experience of expanded reality

Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.

Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.

I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.

A lot of my shows in the past have been more theatrical than others, but you really get the bug for it when you direct on stage.

I didn't make a film because I wanted a starring role. I made a film because I wanted to tell a story and I wanted to prove that I could direct.

Very rarely are we directing or cutting someone elses boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that comes through here.

It's what I wanted to do with my life. Not necessarily just direct Jim Carrey movies, but to direct and act and write and create and along the way discover what it is that I'm about.

It was always my intention to direct. I went to film school. And then I wanted to know how to work with actors, so I went to acting school. And then by the end of that, I caught the bug.

ABBA was a direct influence on me.

Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others.

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.

Raw, real human conversation can be the most direct path to greater awareness and stronger relationships, even when it's unrehearsed and clumsy-perhaps especially when it's unrehearsed and clumsy!

His [Martin Luther King] last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, is a direct reference to angles, barbarism or socialism.

I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.

I was into writing and directing. I was a bit of a reluctant actor. I would always ask friends to shoot or direct their movies, but then they'd want me to be in them.

Hunger is almost like something the West does. It's almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.

I'm not really a full-time director, I just like to direct the things that I write because I think I'm going to know it better than someone else.

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.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

Now I write often. I decided that I need to write for myself - I can't really direct other people's material.

I'm trying to be a little bit more mature about my choices and think about what I want to direct next, instead of just jumping into a movie 'cause I want to do it.

I’ve spent something like 17 years working on a theory for which there is essentially no direct experimental support.

This is the greatest wealth we possess: to know how to direct our labors rightly.

I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier.

I enjoy storytelling. I like to write it, I like to direct it, I like to act in it, I like to produce it. I like to be around storytellers. That's what excites me.

My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.

There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, look!

I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is.

Leadership is helping yourself and other people achieve goals. The ability to direct your life to get the results you want is leadership.

I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that.

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

Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me. "So direct, so classic," he said. "So American.

Sookie," Eric said. I didn't think he'd heard a word. "Yield to me." Well, that was pretty direct.

Once a citizen receives a direct payment from the state, the state has purchased their complicity

I'm not working on anything. I was trying to write something new . . . I guess the goal for me now, at least at this point, is to try to direct again.

I want to direct films, ultimately. Hopefully I'll have a fantastic career in acting and then go on to do that. That's my dream; that's the ultimate goal.