Direct Quotes · Page 11

I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot…

— Gus Van Sant

Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.

— Anonymous

Los Angeles made me less interested in making my images move. Everything is evolving and regressing. It can be hard to pinpoint…

— Torbjørn Rødland

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would…

— Vikram Rohit Shetty

People a lot of times say that you know it must be hard to direct yourself. That's a myth. It's easier to…

— Billy Bob Thornton

If acting doesn't work out I'd love to produce, direct, or write.

— Anonymous

Politics imagined as direct agency, whether by voting or by participating in politics, you can think you're not political because you don't…

— Aleksandar Hemon

All jobs are created in direct proportion to the amount of capital employed.

— Adam Smith

Direct, forceful, energetic. Loves power, eats up publicity and flattery... Can turn on charm at will and knows it.

— Joseph Stilwell

Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into…

— A. S. Byatt

Crown Prince Rupprecht, the heir to the throne of Bavaria who commanded the army group facing the British at the Somme, was…

— David Frum

I take a lot of inspiration from the nature of the universe and visualize my work as a direct or indirect reflection…

— Jeet Aulakh

My father, good or bad, mistakes or no, had a direct line from his heart to the music to the people, to…

— Arthur Rubinstein

If you cannot sell, you cannot be an entrepreneur. If you cannot sell, you cannot raise money. if the thought of sales…

— Robert Kiyosaki

It's never hard to cast kids; it's only ever hard to direct them.

— Guillermo del Toro

What I am trying to say is that it is not without any value. The value of copies is that they can…

— Abbas Kiarostami

It was a complete dream to work with David LaChapelle. I collected his books as a teenager, and I fantasised that he…

— Florence Welch

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

— Mickey Rourke

[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons

— Albert Bandura

Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.

— Penn Jillette

Some countries have a parliamentary republic, some are presidential republics and some are still monarchies, but no one sees them as not…

— Vladimir Putin

I love to direct my daughter, and act with her, and we both want to work with Jane again.

— Peter Fonda

The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.

— Steven Spielberg

The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American…

— Rand Paul