Direct Quotes

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My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is based on that. — Donald Byrd
I would love to direct but I feel like directing is a whole separate craft and so I tend to respect it as a separate… — Michael Ealy
Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage. — Robert Englund
With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going… — Abel Ferrara
If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a… — John Patrick Shanley
Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or… — Mel Brooks
I think directors should at least take acting lessons to see what's going on. And I think all actors should direct to see what a… — Penny Marshall
Before I go off and direct a movie, I always look at four films. They tend to be The Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It's… — Steven Spielberg
Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But… — Ted Rall
Today's marginalization of Christianity is a direct result of our failure to understand our faith as a total worldview. — Charles Colson
Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially with nasty smells,… — Archibald Garrod
Lord Krishna... proclaims Self-realization, true wisdom, as the highest branch of all human knowledge-the king of all sciences, the very essence of dharma ("religion")-for it… — Paramahansa Yogananda
You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys. As will you be. Riding the American range. Riding herd on… — David Foster Wallace
In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on movie and TV… — Michael Connelly
It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or… — John Frankenheimer
And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but,… — John Frankenheimer
If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge… — Peter Fonda
I don't think I know enough about acting to direct. You need to be a slight megalomaniac, not where you want to take over the… — Matthew William Goode
As an actor, it's hard to direct because, suddenly, you're not around. The thing which I hate about directing is the waiting game, but you've… — Danny Huston
For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it's hard… — Linda Hunt

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