Direct Quotes

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it.

I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories.

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

I have fun acting, and I want to do more of it, and I want to direct my own movie.

If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

I only direct in self-defense.

I want to write, direct, produce, but in steps. I want to take steps. I don't want to just jump in because I sold a lot of records and just feel like I can jump into the movie world. Naw, I want to learn the movie world like I learned the music world.

I'll probably pursue doing more movies, but not horror or movies with killers in them. I'll try to stick to happy movies. I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she's still doing the same thing.

Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.

If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.

I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.

If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.

Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.

The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.

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, by God, they all think they can edit.

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.

Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.

All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact.

I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.