People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to…

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