“You get to use everything you learned in movie business. You talk to actors, if you do it right - and I haven't always done it right - you should be shaping the material all the time. And the other thing is, you get all the blame when you direct and it doesn't work. You get slammed. So that's another reason to know what you're making, why you're making it, and make it the way you want.” IfsKnowsWayWantShouldReasonDoneUseActorsHavensMaterialsDirectBlameMovie Business Author:Bob Odenkirk
“Having total freedom to direct my own movies is more difficult than those I was hired for, where the framework has been already furnished. Unlike with my own work, I don't have to deny or feel embarrassed at the straightforwardness or orthodoxy of the directorial style, because I can say in excuse, "This is how I was asked to direct by those people."” PeopleFeelsHas BeensI CanDifficultMy OwnStyleDirectExcuseDenyEmbarrassedFrameworkOrthodoxyBecause I Can Author:Takeshi Kitano
“A comic book is the opposite of a cartoon. In a cartoon, you want to simplify the idea, so when they look at it at a glance, they get it. Boom. Simple. Direct to the point. But when you're drawing Groo, now it's a narrative, a story. You want the viewer to get involved in the story. You want him to feel like he's in the town to follow your main character. So I love to add lots and lots of things in it. Things that people will enjoy going back to and say, "Oh yeah, that's how a market must have looked in this fantasy world, with people selling meat here and dishes here."” PeopleWorldWantFeelsLooksBookIdeasCharacterStoriesEnjoySimpleFantasyInvolvedDirectOppositesTownsYeahAddDrawingSellingComicNarrativeMeatDishesComic BookCartoonViewersGlancesGet InvolvedSimplifyWant HimMain CharactersFantasy Worlds Author:Sergio Aragones
“There's this pet phrase about writing that is bandied around particularly in workshops about "finding your own voice as a poet", which I suppose means that you come out from under the direct influence of other poets and have perhaps found a way to combine those influences so that it appears to be your own voice. But I think you could also put it a different way. You, quote, find your voice, unquote, when you are able to invent this one character who resembles you, obviously, and probably is more like you than anyone else on earth, but is not the equivalent to you.” ThinkingWayWritingMeanDifferentCharacterAbleEarthFoundVoiceInfluencePoetLike YouFindingsDirectDifferent WaysPhrasesPetWorkshops Author:Billy Collins
“We stand in the shadow of the Bible today as opposed to in the pages of the Bible. I think that the biblical illiteracy comes as a direct result of a failure to recognize that the DNA of western civilization comes from a biblical worldview.” ThinkingTodayResultsCivilizationPagesShadowDirectWesternBiblicalDnaWorldviewWestern CivilizationIlliteracyBiblical Worldview Author:Hank Hanegraaff
“You know, some of the action stuff, I tend to have a pretty good sense of humor about it. Even when I direct and have a lot of pressure, it teaches me to laugh at stuff. I think that comes also from sports, from combat sports, where you've got to learn to laugh at it and take it in stride. Otherwise, you just can't deal with it.” ThinkingKnowsActionStuffSportsDealsTeachLaughingDirectPressureSense Of HumorCombatGood SenseStrideGood Sense Of Humor Author:Dolph Lundgren
“I think that, generally, when it's a white male shooting, then it's mental illness is the first thing that they utilize after reporting the crime. But in this instance, a Muslim, it's always terrorism. So it's always a direct attack towards Muslims, who are American citizens, and as well as other individuals who are here who believe in their faith. And we find that we are now in a position again of trying to protect ourselves, and, again, in some instances, causing people to become more sequestered in their day-to-day lives.” PeopleThinkingTryingBelieveIndividualCrimeProtectDirectIllnessTerrorismMental Illness Author:Daayiee Abdullah
“You see, Donald Trump is Adolf Hitler. And a lot of people know it but they don't want to get involved. So they're just backing off and they're trying to blend into the invisible hoping nobody ever comes for them or notices them. "Watching Donald Trump's rise, I now understand. Leave aside whether a direct comparison of Trump to Hitler is accurate. That is not my point. My point rather is about how a demagogic opportunist can exploit a divided country."” PeopleTryingCountryDirectInvisibleComparisonGet Involved Author:Rush Limbaugh
“When you direct the dialogue you can be precise, but with a song as a director you're more like a football coach. You can say one, two things in the beginning and then the actor has to follow what happens.” SongFootballDirectCoachesDialogueFootball Coach Author:Maren Ade
“Just watching Chris Nolan direct was amazing. He is one of the most lovely people, which as you know doesn't always go hand-in-hand with great directors. But with Christopher Nolan, and there's only a few I think like him in Hollywood, that's absolutely true.” PeopleThinkingDirectLovelyNolan Author:Suzanne Todd
“People are starting to reflect upon the power of emotions on illness and I have always felt a direct connection between emotion and body. It is fascinating that neurologists are starting to tell their patients that yes, they are sick, the symptoms are there, but it is probably happening because an emotion is not coming out the way it could and should.” PeopleEmotionDirectSickPatientIllness Author:Caroline Dhavernas
“As a top manager, you have to not just reward truth-telling, you've got to beg for it, and you've got to demand that everyone around you gives you constructive criticism, constantly. You've got to get out of the bubble, so that you can get direct feedback from everybody who's being affected.” GivingDirectCriticismBubblesFeedback Author:Robert Reich
“Later as things progressed and I saw the direct correlation between being able to keep making records and having people know about the music, I became more interested in using popular media as a way to get the word out.” PeopleDirect Author:Kathleen Hanna
“The idea that musicians/artists have a responsibility to be community leaders or "role models" is problematic to me because I really believe that some of the most exciting art is not community-minded at least in any obvious or direct way, which is not to say that it is not ethical or consciousness-changing.” BelieveArtArtistCommunityResponsibilityLeaderMusicianArt IsDirectExcitingObviousEthicalRole Models Author:Kathleen Hanna
“Create a life outside of acting work that fulfills you and feeds your soul. Nurture your relationships - family and friends. Stay ready and open for those opportunities that will come as a direct result of that readiness and openness. Only stay in it as long as it feeds your soul.” LongSoulOpportunityActingDirectYour SoulOpennessOur RelationshipNurtureFamily And Friends Author:Melanie Nicholls-King
“You can be very honest and direct with people, respectfully. I never do anything maliciously; I simply give my honest opinion.” PeopleGivingOpinionHonestDirect Author:Charlamagne Tha God
“My last visit to China as secretary, January of 2011, I told President Hu Jintao, just like this, "President of the United States wanted me to tell you that we now consider North Korea a direct threat to the United States." And it had no effect whatsoever.” PresidentDirectThreatSecretaryNorth KoreaJanuary Author:Robert M. Gates
“My favorite kind of music is the stuff that stops time. You put something on to sit there and let an experience go through you. To look at yourself clearly through a song. It's true of all art, all mediums, but for some reason music has a direct line straight into people.” PeopleKindArtReasonSongMusic IsDirectMy FavoriteLook At YourselfStop Time Author:Jeff Buckley
“North Korea is a direct threat to the United States. They have been very clear in their rhetoric we don't have to wait until they have an intercont- intercontinental ballistic missile with a nuclear weapon on it to say that now it's manifested completely.” WaitingDirectThreatNuclear WeaponsRhetoricNorth Korea Author:James Mattis
“All these think tank experts in Washington at the Woodrow Wilson Center say, "It's really, really a dangerous thing. It's just not right. The president of the United States should never, ever make his first foreign trip to the Middle East! Never, ever. Because it's too fraught with potential disaster. Because President Trump clearly is not sophisticated enough to know the idiosyncrasies, the customs, and the requirements." That's right, no president ever has. Do you know that there has never by a direct flight from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to Tel Aviv until Donald Trump did it? Never.” ThinkingEnoughPresidentDangerousDirectDisasterFlightSophisticatedIdiosyncrasies Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The presidential campaign was oriented toward the way we elect the presidency, Electoral College, not the popular vote. The popular vote doesn't matter. This is not a direct democracy. We have a representative republic, and the popular vote doesn't matter and it never has, by design.” DemocracyDesignCollegeDirectVotePresidentialPresidential Campaign Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I'm already a big enough target. I'm already more famous than most people should ever hope to be, and, as such, that has a direct effect on the size of the target that is on me. And you always do what you can to reduce the size of the target while not reducing your presence.” PeopleEnoughDirectYour Presence Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There's no passive success on radio. Well, in radio, one of the ways in which you engage people and make them active listeners and have them glued so that they don't want to do anything else, you have to find ways to incorporate this mystery called the theater of the mind. And it's the one ingredient that radio has that television does not that if used properly, if perfected and learned and executed properly, it can have a much greater impact than TV because it can create a much more intimate, direct connection with the audience.” PeopleMindAudienceMysteryDirectIntimatePassive Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The United States is not longer going to be the world's policemen and our days of determining you're in or you're out around the world no matter what the level of direct American interest or connection are going to be very limited. Increasingly, Africa will be doing that.” WorldInterestDirect Author:Ian Bremmer
“Motherhood is this sort of "curtain lifting" of tremendous power that we have individually as women. It's tremendously freaky to have a human being grow inside your body and eventually turn into a human being, and then birth that human being, and then have them be separate from you. Those things are scary. It's also really, really scary to face the idea of losing a child and losing someone you love more than you've loved anything before. All of those things are innately really terrifying, and what it does to me is bring me to a direct kind of confrontation with my human vulnerability.” KindChildrenBirthLosingDirectScaryMotherhoodVulnerabilityLiftingConfrontationOne You LoveLosing SomeoneFreakyReally Scary Author:Karyn Kusama
“The smaller the instrument or more hidden it is such as electronics, the more esoteric it becomes and in my mind becomes boring watching someone go like this and that has no direct... It's just a complete abstract motion, not attach to any sound.” MindDirectBoringAbstract Author:Dan Deacon
“I'm a real people pleaser, and for a while I was really desperate to make a kind of thing that would satisfy everyone, and I realized I was focusing so much on satisfying everyone else that I'd forgotten that the only real way to make anything true is to focus on making what you want to hear and saying what you want to say. Trying to people please with my art was a direct line to complete meltdown, writer's block situation, and I had to look inward before I could move past it.” PeopleTryingKindArtRealPastMovingSituationFocusDirectForgottenI RealizedBlockDesperate Author:Jenn Wasner
“Sometimes you have to say no to things that people don't want you to say no to in the interest of self-preservation. I definitely went through some times that I did more than I could handle, and I was trying to make decisions for the best of my career; the irony was that those decisions were a direct cause of my inability to produce, perform, create anything. If you are not emotionally and personally stable and intact and healthy, then the entire foundation of what you do this for - the things that you make - is gone.” PeopleTryingSometimesInterestDecisionHealthyDirectIrony Author:Jenn Wasner
“I probably would never be able to direct a comedy because I'm not that funny. I don't have that funny bone in me, so it wouldn't be a natural fit. But I love the world of science fiction, and I love the world of technology and science too.” WorldNaturalTechnologyComedyFitDirectScience FictionBones Author:Luke Scott
“I read The Onion, and I've read a lot of interviews that are very direct, often with people who are never direct. Which is interesting. But somehow the A.V.Club part of The Onion, I don't think is telegraphed into the popular culture.” PeopleThinkingCultureInterestingDirectPopular Culture Author:John Flansburgh
“That's because of everything the public interest and the media interest is focused on: What did Donald Trump know and when did he know it? Whether there was cooperation with the Russians. I don't mean to say that's a distraction or we shouldn't follow it up. But the underlying story of the Russians trying to subvert our democracy, both through propaganda, planted stories, manipulation of social media and through direct efforts to infiltrate our state election system, is really an enormously significant event. And it's not over.” TryingMeanInterestEffortDemocracyDirectElectionSocial MediaFocusedSignificantPropagandaManipulationCooperationDistraction Author:Angus King
“When any kind of military action is popular it's because either there's been a very clear, direct threat to us - 9/11 - or an administration uses various hooks to suggest that American interests were directly threatened - like in Panama or Grenada. And sometimes, those hooks are more persuasive than others, but typically, they're not put before Congress.” KindSometimesActionInterestMilitaryDirectThreatVariousHookPersuasive Author:Barack Obama
“It doesn't seem weird to me, at all. I'm in Baton Rouge getting ready to direct a movie for Sony, and I'm in the movie and I'm directing it. I know it's kind of this thing where some people find it difficult. I just finished a movie with Mario Van Peebles and he acted and directed as well too. I think we all feel similar that it just kind of seems natural.” PeopleThinkingKindDifficultNaturalDirect Author:Michael Jai White
“What you should be in a rush for isn't necessarily the immediate monetary return, but it's to know that this equation existing between an employee and a company is being honored. What's the equation? I'm going to give you my most precious thing that I have - my time and my reputation. That's what the employee says. And the company says I'm going to take your time and your reputation and direct it at things that we believe collectively have a huge impact opportunity to do something extremely positive. And that positivity will get measured in impact and also economic upside.” GivingBelieveOpportunityEconomicDirectPositivityReputationEmployeeHonoredMonetaryTake Your Time Author:Chamath Palihapitiya
“The biggest myth about fatherhood that you get given a direct phone number to talk to Santa and tell him how your kid has been behaving. Absolute bullshit. I got an email address and it's just giving me an out of office reply.” GivingKidsOfficeDirectMythBullshitFatherhood Author:Chris Ramsey
“I was really lucky to have an opportunity to direct a horror anthology. It kind of fell into my lap before I was really prepared, which was nice, but I feel like I could've done a lot more in retrospect. So if I do direct again, I'm going to do my homework.” KindDoneOpportunityNiceHorrorLuckyDirectHomework Author:Lindsey Haun
“Of course, in the states, about half the states elect their judges, and that's an even more direct involvement with politics. But I think it's not the same as the elections of many other candidates. People who run for the judiciary, I think are pretty careful to indicate that they will adhere to the rule of law.” PeopleThinkingRunningJudgingDirectElectionCarefulInvolvementRule Of LawJudiciary Author:Martha Minow
“It should not be harder for our daughters to direct than our sons. It should be an equal playing field.” SonEqualDaughterDirectOur Daughter Author:Lesli Linka Glatter
“Things like rhyming - it just wasn't falling out of my head that way. So I started to get quite freaked out that I just couldn't write anymore. And then I just kind of went with it, and thought that, "This is the way that my brain's working," in a more direct way, then I should just try it like that for this album. And follow it. Just went with the writer's block, almost - it's a strange thing.” WritingTryingKindFallStrangeDirectBlockRhyming Author:Elena Tonra
“It's astonishing how many people who direct action don't know how to tell a story.” PeopleActionDirect Author:Amy Pascal
“The way that I'm feeling the shift in movie industry is that women are allowed to be part of the development process. So I do feel like things are changing because I'm allowed to option books or write an original screenplay or direct. Those possibilities are really wide open. I think that males still struggle to write for females, which is totally fine because I don't think I could write a really impactful male role because that's not the life that I lived. So we'll just keep shouting and say we need more opportunities for not just women but people that are just different.” PeopleThinkingWritingBookDifferentFeelingsOpportunityStrugglePossibilityFemaleDirect Author:Brie Larson
“If anything, the way that you feel is a direct indicator of how far we've come from our symbiotic relationship with nature. In that way, when someone hangs a mirror to every single blemish that's on us, it makes you really reassess what your morals are.” MoralDirect Author:Steven Yeun
“When you raise the budget, you make creative compromises. The higher the budget goes, the more cuts in your movie happen. When people talk about how movies are watered down, that's a direct reflection of money and budget. The less money you spend; the more risks you can take. That doesn't mean it will be successful, but at least you can try different stuff. The higher your budget is, the less you can do that.” PeopleTryingMeanDifferentCreativeSuccessfulCuttingRiskReflectionDirectCompromiseBeing Successful Author:Jason Blum
“If you have a strong business idea, then it is comparatively easy now to get capital. It is a positive thing that increasingly more people want to join the startup bandwagon. However, to build a successful business, focus on creating more value through the product, and direct your efforts on solving real issues. If you manage to build a sustainable product, revenue will follow. A lot of startups fail because they concentrate on incremental innovations, increasing user base, and monetisation before strengthening the core of their business.” PeopleRealValuesStrongEasyEffortSuccessfulFocusFailingDirectInnovationManageUsersStrengtheningSuccessful Business Author:Bhavin Turakhia
“The angels love us. And it's their assignment. They are direct, pure emissaries for God.” AngelDirect Author:Doreen Virtue
“The really valuable thing about documenting coral bleaching is that it is this straight, very direct visual indicator of how hot the oceans are getting. If the temperature of the water passes a certain threshold, the corals turn white. It's that simple. There's nothing natural about the cycle that's going on right now. In 2016, we lost 29 percent of the Great Barrier Reef. So 29 percent of the Great Barrier Reef died in a single year, because the water was hot.” WaterNaturalSimpleOceanDirectHotValuableBarriers Author:Jeff Orlowski
“What happened with the opioid epidemic is the Mexican cartels made a very deliberate, corporate decision to undercut the price of opioids. What they discovered was they could increase production, increase potency and decrease the price, and sell it for a third of what the Big Pharma could, or street dealers could, for Big Pharma pills. North America, and to a slightly lesser extent Europe, is being flooded with this Mexican heroin as a direct result of the attempt to undercut American pharmaceutical companies.” DecisionDirectMexicanHeroinDealerPharmaceutical Author:Don Winslow
“The media is in charge of what you think. They're in charge of what you know and don't know. And any challenge to that, like alternative media or a president with direct access to the audience and doesn't need them, is a threat.” ThinkingPresidentChallengesAudienceDirectThreat Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.” InfluenceDirect Author:Al Franken
“My suspicion is that those who seem oblivious to suffering, whether it is nearby or in remote corners, are for the most part unaware, perhaps blinded by doctrine and ideology. For them, the answer is to develop a critical attitude toward articles of faith, secular or religious; to encourage their capacity to question, to explore, to view the world from the standpoint of others. And direct exposure is never very far away, wherever we live - perhaps the homeless person huddling in the cold or asking for a few pennies for food, or all too many more.” WorldSufferingReligiousAttitudeColdDirectIdeologyFar AwaySuspicionSecularHomelessOblivious Author:Noam Chomsky