Direct Quotes

When people direct insults at me, I can take it.

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

I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write and direct, and also act in films, although he's primarily an actor.

My oldest step-son wants to direct or produce. As far as being an actor, I've already told them they have to wait until they're 18; I won't take them to auditions.

I want to write and direct a movie one day.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.

Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral.

I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go.

Being on Twitter, live tweeting some of the episodes, I get direct feedback from people.

A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.

I would love to think there is a direct relationship between coffee and genius, but they've done studies, and if anything, caffeine probably makes you a little less creative.

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

Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you.

I crave the freedom of knowing that if I want to do something, I can do it. It's important that I live in such a way that I can maintain a direct response to ideas.

When you direct a film, everything should be about the story and nothing else.

Freedom can be killed by neglect as well as by direct attack.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.

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

I would love to be able to direct episodic television, because it's a great way to make a living, and it's something where I think I could utilize my talents as well as my ability to work fast.

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.

I knew I wanted to direct since I was a kid. That was something I was always fascinated by and wanted to experience and see if I would be any good at it.

In Zen we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it, to accumulate will. We use it to direct our actions, and we don't overuse it or abuse it - that's a waste.

You must have tremendous power of focus to direct your life and not allow all these variant forces, different vibrations, to enter you.

A teacher will alter the balance of power by actually lifting a person into other states of mind. In those states of mind the teaching will take place in non-verbal ways through direct experience.

A balanced person will get depressed, discouraged, frustrated and angry sometimes, but doesn't direct it towards anybody else. If they do, they quickly realize they made a mistake.

We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of life.

We don't live forever. We have a limited energy. You have to determine those things that you direct your energy towards, otherwise you get yourself in too many places and nothing succeeds.

We have the possibility of being far removed from what we are, of beginning to taste it and feel it. That is direct knowledge. That is truth. Anything else is mere words.

Meditation is a violent act of separation from mass consciousness and direct access to power.

If we try and direct our lives with only our limited rationalistic thoughts and our sense perceptions, then our actions and our activities will not be prefect.

Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere.

Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way of thinking and viewing something.

Our actions and experiences will direct us. In other words, we will be guided by the inherent emptiness of the things we choose to interact with.

Enlightenment is a perfect state of mind. It is the direct seeing of reality. The world most people see, which they call life, is really just a dream.

I think it is best to let the experience you have with a teacher direct itself, Instead of trying to make the experience into what you might like it to be. Leave it alone!

In the most advanced state of love we don't love for any reason or purpose. We don't even direct our love necessarily to an object.

I am very direct, to the point that I think I might make people uncomfortable! I do not know how not to be direct. I don't think there's time to waste.

Aside from producing I want to direct but I'm also going to get back out on the road.

When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.

I want to direct. It's something that I know I'll be really good at.

One thing is a fairly simple and straightforward thing. I don't long to direct. I really want to get some good parts.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.

If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.

The decisions we make in Washington have a direct impact on the people in our country, obviously.

Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.

I don't want to direct music videos at all. Any work I do with a camera I'd like to be for a film.

It's not good to be in a situation where people don't want to direct you or don't want to question something.