Direct Quotes

In a movie you have all these logistical problems; all these practical problems. But you're also going to have people come who can do things that you can't do, and you get to direct their talents.

I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going to challenge me as an actor. I want to be an actor - it's my aspiration - so I want to do other films. I want to write something and I want to direct something!

I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do.

You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some direct route back to Jonathan. But I love him to death. He's like my best friend and my big brother.

When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.

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

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.

If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.

I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people.

One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.

Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.

If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience.

I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak.

I will direct one day, but I have a feeling that it will be very limited.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab.

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.

The film is a direct mirror of the director. If your director doesn't know how to dress, there will be an aesthetic of the film that won't come through - whether it's in the costumes if he doesn't know exactly what he wants or the look of the film.

If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

Every actor wants to direct.