Directing Quotes
531 quotes by 423 authors
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Producing is the hardest of the three because there is almost no closure. Every time you solve a problem, another one pops up. Directing is…
— Henry Winkler
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Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together." Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Many couples, many people, are not living with real human beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years the spell of a…
— Anais Nin
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Our father in heaven governs the affairs of men by placing specific individuals upon the earth to lead at specific times and inspiring and directing…
— Harold B. Lee
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Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think...of a piano. It has not got two kinds of notes on it,…
— C.S. Lewis
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Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Our freedom of choice in a competitive society rests on the fact that, if one person refuses to satisfy our wishes, we can turn to…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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And there are vampires, too? Werewolves, warlocks, all that stuff?" Clary gnawed her lower lip. "So I hear." "And you kill them, too?" Simon asked,…
— Cassandra Clare
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Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.
— Albert Camus
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Never did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destroyed him ... His subconscious knew what his min…
— Toni Morrison
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Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.
— Stephen King
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One of the reasons I became a writer is that, unlike starting a band, directing movies, or acting in a theatrical production, you can do…
— Neil Strauss
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I value my own independence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than that of having another man perpetually directing and advising and…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Anger is a fuel. You need fuel to launch a rocket. But if all you have is fuel without any complex internal mechanism directing it,…
— Stanley Bing
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Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him…
— Robert Nozick
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The main characteristic of collectivism is that it does not take notice of the individual's will and moral self-determination. In the light of its philosophy…
— Ludwig von Mises
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When I started producing, it was George Abbott directing and he would let me do the scenery. He just wanted to know where the doors…
— Harold Prince
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I want to stop directing so many of resources to the military budget and focus them here at home. I believe government should invest in…
— Cynthia Dill
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I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different element of that…
— Allison Mack
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Music runs through everything I do - I even think musically; even when I was acting, but, especially, when I am directing. Directing is very…
— Robby Benson
Who Wrote These Directing Quotes
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