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I'd love to direct commercials on Caribbean beacheswith luscious women rubbing on suntan lotion, but all I get arethese documentary-type things.

As I grow and get older, mature a bit, and work on my big boy voice a little bit, I definitely want to direct.

If you're working with a director you trust, you can turn that part of you off that wants to direct other actors in a certain way.

Cut off from direct experience, cut off from our own feelings and sometimes our own sensations, we are only too ready to adopt a viewpoint or perspective that is handed to us, and is not our own.

ISIS, in some cases like Paris, may actually try to direct. But what it's really trying to do is inspire. So its directed activities are these inspired attacks.

All these directors who do different locations forget that one room can be shot from a million different angles and a million different ways. When I direct a movie, I'm going to use that.

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.

You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.

Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster.

I couldn't direct traffic. It's hard enough just acting.

I used to stand in front of the mirror and listen to Hezekiah Walker all day. I thought I was a member of his choir and direct people that weren't there.

I've never stayed at a bed and breakfast. If I did, I figure you would start to get hungry! "Is that all you got around here? Well, maybe you can direct me to a chair lunch dinner."

I called the hotel operator and she said, "How can I direct your call?" I said, "Well, you could say 'Action!', and I'll begin to dial. And when I say 'Goodbye', then you can yell 'Cut!'"

I did not direct any of my investments nor did I know of these investments.

You have to be insane to direct.

I don't know anything but writing practice, and so what I really do is direct that energy as if it were flowing down a river.

One thing I'm passionate about is directing. I've always wanted to direct.

The soul has come to the physical realm to have a direct experience of itself as an "individuation of divinity."

I don't have specific television ambitions in the sense that I remain fundamentally and academic, and so, my innermost ambitions are what's the next discovery I can make; that's in my direct center.

When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us.

I feel very creatively satisfied and lucky that I get to write for other people, but for something I direct, it has to be something I completely understand every facet of.

All of the things I've directed, I'm really emotionally close to. That's why I choose to direct them and spend years on them.

When I write something, it's usually 'cause I think it's funny or I have a way in, but when I direct something, I really need to be close to it.

I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.

The degradation of our environment is undeniably a direct result of our lack of regard, lack of accountability, and lack of responsibility.

The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.

The UN to some extent diffuses U.S. power. Therefore it's less direct an agency of the United States than the U.S. Army is. But still, it can't escape the distribution of power in the world.

Private companies can make a personal profile, direct you to things - they will say - that you would be interested in, but that's their choice not your choice.

Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.

I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.

Sometimes it only takes three words, so long as they're the right words, to direct an actor in the right way.

What is the impulse that drove to direct? To me, it seems so immense. Just having a rock 'n' roll band, or to go from the solitude of writing and to having to collaborate, is almost schizophrenic.

The great thing about fiscal policy is that it has a direct impact and doesn't require you to bind the hands of future policymakers.

I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something.

I don't really want to direct myself, but I'm certainly torn in that direction.

Usually I like to make my movies from start to finish in chronological order. As a filmmaker it lets me be able to direct my actors and tell them where exactly they are and go with progression.

Islamic State is mainly a direct result of the failure in Syria. That's where IS has grown. That's where IS spread from.

Reality, like God and History, tends to direct people to wherever they want to go.

Never asking a direct question, even though the other person can guess what it is you want to know.

I've wanted to direct for a long time, but it had to be a story I wanted to tell. The writer's job is to find the story that he should tell.

I don't know anything about directing, but if you love actors, know your story and hire a great company, then anyone can direct a film.

Most directors prefer to direct everything themselves. I thought I could on Lord Of The Rings, but very quickly found out that the sheer scale prevented it.

I guess actors don't like to direct each other.

The travel ban that was imposed by the [Donald Trump] administration is a very direct reverberation of 9/11.

If we had to go live action, I'd hold out for Tim Burton to direct.

It is important always to remember that virtual contact cannot and must not take the place of direct human contact with people at every level of our lives.

Thus, the apostles' adventure began as a gathering of persons who open to one another reciprocally. A direct knowledge of the Teacher began for the disciples.

The teachings of the Gospel have direct consequences for our way of thinking, feeling and living.

If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.

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