Direct famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
-- A. R. Ammons -
If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.
-- Adam Brody -
I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.
-- Alexis Bledel -
I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.
-- Andy Serkis -
It was the straying that found the path direct.
-- Austin Osman Spare -
Music stimulates within us direct experience of expanded reality
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard -
Very rarely are we directing or cutting someone elses boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that comes through here.
-- Ben Nicholson -
The direct consequence is that we have to fight with each other in order to survive.
-- Bernard Lietaer -
I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.
-- Bev Perdue -
The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship.
-- Brian Tracy -
There is a direct relationship between self-discipline and self-esteem.
-- Brian Tracy -
And I certainly intend to direct someday.
-- Casper Van Dien -
Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me. "So direct, so classic," he said. "So American.
-- Charlaine Harris -
Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can.
-- Charles Darwin -
Peace is not achievable as a direct object of purposeful behaviour.
-- Colin S. Gray -
I'd like to direct some, act in some of them, and produce.
-- Corbin Bernsen -
You know that you're going to invest so much of your time on a movie when you direct it that it's something that just really has to jump out at you and pull at your heart, and nothing has.
-- Courteney Cox -
Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.
-- Dale Carnegie -
If [domain seizure] isn't direct censorship, I don't know what is.
-- Dan Gillmor -
Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.
-- David Graeber -
I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab.
-- David Wenham -
I wouldn't want to direct. I see how much work it is.
-- Devon Sawa -
No reference is truly direct—every reference depends on SOME kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is.
-- Douglas Hofstadter -
Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
-- Douglas Horton -
If there is no direct threat why are we invading?
-- Dustin Hoffman -
As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service.
-- Earl Nightingale -
When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of
-- Ed Harris -
When people direct insults at me, I can take it.
-- Eli Roth -
I'm actively looking for things to direct again. I had such an amazing experience on this. I really am spoiled.
-- Elizabeth Banks -
I always direct the same film. I can't distinguish one from the other.
-- Federico Fellini -
Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.
-- Frank Langella -
I'm always trying to make movies. It's what I love to do more than anything. I love to write and direct.
-- Frank Whaley -
Dance is the fastest, most direct route to the truth,
-- Gabrielle -
I want to direct. It's something that I know I'll be really good at.
-- Gedde Watanabe -
Eventually I'd love to be able to direct.
-- Graham Phillips -
I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
-- Ian Somerhalder -
Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.
-- J. Ogden Armour -
My intention was always to direct and writing things just became convenient and happened.
-- Jeff Baena -
I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.
-- Jesse McCartney -
I was never one of those people who thought, 'What I really want to do is direct.' It never occurred to me
-- Joey Lauren Adams -
Directors never direct me. They just let me loose.
-- John Carradine -
Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have.
-- John Paul Caponigro -
I will direct one day, but I have a feeling that it will be very limited.
-- John Travolta -
Everybody you talk to about insurance says the insurance market has become a lot more vibrant as a result of lifting, allowing the foreign direct investment.
-- John W. Snow -
I would like to direct in the future, but I am in no hurry with that.
-- Jonathan Brandis -
I don't like to be overly directing people either. I tell them what I want and I tell them when it's wrong. I tell them no, that's not what I want. I want it more like this or more like that. I'm pretty direct with everyone, and I treat everyone the same which might be good.
-- Julie Delpy -
You know, sometimes the most direct route isn't the right one. - Jacob
-- Justina Chen -
Direct your mind where you want it to travel instead of always going for the ride.
-- Kris Carr -
I don't want to say I'm never going to direct again, but directing's hard work.
-- Kyle Chandler -
Instinct is the direct connection with truth.
-- Laurette Taylor -
I don't think I'd ever want to direct. I don't think I have as much discipline to direct as I would like to have, and I don't want my hair color to not go grey during that process.
-- Liana Liberato -
The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it.
-- Louis Pasteur -
I've been asked to direct pilots for a lot of shows.
-- M. Night Shyamalan -
To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.
-- Mark Epstein -
With empathy we don't direct, we follow. Don't just do something, be there.
-- Marshall B. Rosenberg -
Eventually, everyone said, Why don't you direct? It would save time. And that's how it started.
-- Melissa Joan Hart -
I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.
-- Nick Lowe -
Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.
-- Norman Tebbit -
Simply put, the direct power over the money supply is the indirect power over the people.
-- Orrin Woodward -
For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.
-- Peter Jackson -
If we had to go live action, I'd hold out for Tim Burton to direct.
-- Phil Foglio -
Usually I don't like to act in movies that I direct because it's kind of confusing.
-- Rob Reiner -
The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.
-- Robert Bresson -
Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements.
-- Rudolf Carnap -
The past is what we have to learn about how to direct America to the future.
-- Rudy Giuliani -
I am very straight-forward and direct. If I disagree with something, I say something about it.
-- Simon Baker -
What we do for others has a direct impact on how we feel about ourselves.
-- Simon Sinek -
The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.
-- Stanley Smith Stevens -
If the right thing came along, I would absolutely direct something I did not write because I love the process so much, but we'll see. I'm taking it day by day.
-- Stephen Chbosky -
Yes, I definitely plan to direct at some point.
-- Stephen Dorff -
The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power
-- Steven Biko -
I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.
-- Steven Spielberg -
Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.
-- Suzanne Vega -
You will be paid in direct proportion to the value you create in the marketplace.
-- T. Harv Eker -
Fashion is a movie. Every morning when you get dressed, you direct yourself.
-- Thierry Mugler -
Direct me gods, whose changes are all holy, To where it flickers deep in grass, the moly.
-- Thom Gunn -
I'm currently trying to direct my own material.
-- Tom Skerritt -
I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.
-- Tom Stoppard -
I'm impossible to direct. I couldn't get myself to do anything.
-- Tony Shalhoub -
The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action.
-- William Burnham Woods -
When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.
-- William Shatner -
Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.
-- William Zinsser -
I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.
-- Yaphet Kotto -
Worry is a direct consequence of relying on your own efforts.
-- Yasmin Mogahed -
I didn't make a film because I wanted a starring role. I made a film because I wanted to tell a story and I wanted to prove that I could direct.
-- Ben Drew