Direct Quotes

Yes, I definitely plan to direct at some point.

...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.

I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.

I always wanted to direct. I always saw myself as a director.

In a huge way, everything that I've done in my life has helped inform my ability to communicate with actors and direct them.

It would probably be a direct order, shape up your morale. And so he understands command. He understands how to delegate. And I think that [General John Kelly] will bring law and order.

She has learned that her body is precious and it mustn't be offered carelessly ever again, as it holds a direct connection to her heart.

I didn't direct [the Taboo episodes]. I wrote all of them.

Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuver. What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most direct and to turn misfortune to advantage.

The ability to hurt someone is usually in direct proportion to how much that person cares about you.

If Wes Anderson has a very strong cast, he can direct the minutia of that story and still manage to have something that lives and breathes.

I hesitate to direct even though I feel I contribute a lot on a set.

I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way.

Direct to consumer really gives you control of your business completely.

I tried to put direct to consumer through a wholesales channel - the industry was just not ready to adapt and change. The other issue I had was with Jimmy Choo.

To write, you have to know how to act and know about directing. To act, you also need to know how to write and direct.

But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.

We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort.

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'

If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.

Direct me gods, whose changes are all holy, To where it flickers deep in grass, the moly.

Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man.

I wanted to direct when I was very young. I had no idea of cinema, of who's doing what. That was my first instinct: "Okay, I want to be the boss."

Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.

The doctrine of population has been conspicuously absent, not because I doubt in the least its truth and vast importance, but because it forms no part of the direct problem of economics.

Schiaparelli’s collaborations with Dali and Cocteau as well as Prada’s Fondazione Prada push art and fashion ever closer, in a direct, synergistic, and culturally redefining relationship.

If I were to direct an episode, then there would be no one for me to blame, and that's not any fun. It's more about sitting in the back seat and trying to drive.

Every commercial covers different ground, different ideas, and it's my profession to direct and to tell stories - for me, it's very organic.

All directors should have to act and all actors should have to direct, so that they can understand all these key things that come into play with whether you can meet your day.

If I was to direct Ron Howard, I guarantee you, I would put him through a living hell every day. I would demand so much of him. We wouldn't quit until he leaves the set crying. Weeping! Spent!

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'

I don’t want to be an editor! I don’t want to direct; I’d be a horrible director. I don’t want to write - I have a “story by” credit on one film I did. And I don’t want to edit at all.

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

I don't like to direct myself.

I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.

My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it.

I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full of pure wisdom and truth, but also amazing technical advice.

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...

Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of a world in which they are to have no direct share.

He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner.

Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor, though important place.

Almost all Europe, for many centuries, was inundated with blood, which was shed at the direct instigation or with the full approval of the ecclesiastical authorities.

I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have to take off the writer hat and let the director direct.

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

I guess I would model myself after the Bill Condons, the Frank Darabonts and the David Nutters if I were to direct a feature, which I would love to do, by the way.

When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.

Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.