One thing is a fairly simple and straightforward thing. I…

One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,…

— Anonymous

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing…

— John Ford

The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.

— Stanley Smith Stevens

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

— Arthur Symons

The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from…

— Carl Sagan

I'm currently trying to direct my own material.

— Tom Skerritt

By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something…

— Talib Kweli

There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine.…

— Dorothy Parker

If you take all the food aid, America is by far the most generous country. If you take the direct aid, we're very generous.…

— George W. Bush

I understand the formula that producers hire directors and directors are hired to direct and actors are hired to act. I don't have any…

— Danny Trejo

They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the…

— Marsden Hartley

I'm too direct and too unsparingly impatient.

— Shirley MacLaine

Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made him eat…

— Albert Brooks

This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase…

— Gore Vidal

Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always available as…

— James S.A. Corey