“Yes, I direct commercials as well. I get these really weird offers and then I have to bid on them and win the job. One offer that I have now, and I've already done this last year for the same company, is for Cash Value Cheese, this cheese out in the midwest. I did two spots for them last year and I'm going to probably do three this year. I also did some for the Utah Transit Authority, which was weird and interesting and they turned out really funny - they actually won an award.” YearsWellsTwoDoneJobsLastsValuesThreeWinningInterestingCompanyOffersAuthorityDirectSpotsAwardsCashLast YearCheeseMidwestReally WeirdUtah Author:Andy Dick
“I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that.” DoneWould BeChallengesMysteryDirectThrillers Author:Catherine Hardwicke
“Werner Herzog, I knew him for so many years, when Fassbinder was at his highest moment. But we had a rule: An actor from Fassbinder could never work with an actor of Werner Herzog or Wim Wenders. Because if we would have done that, we would have been spies. "Ah, you worked with Werner - how was it? How did he direct you?" I was Fassbinder's actor.” IfsYearsHas BeensDoneMomentsActorsHighestDirectSpy Author:Udo Kier
“I'm basically a writer, it's who I am. I direct and I like theatre directing very much. But I've done 17 movies, they don't say 'Let's get Garry, he'll make a helicopter shot,' they say 'Get Garry, he'll fix the script.'” DoneShotsDirectScriptsTheatreWho I AmHelicopters Author:Garry Marshall
“Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?” IfsMenDoneWaterDirectIntelligentGrantedSoleVocationPouringIntelligent Man Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky
“In a huge way, everything that I've done in my life has helped inform my ability to communicate with actors and direct them.” WayDoneActorsAbilityHugeDirectCommunicateAbility To Communicate Author:Steve Antin
“Basically, I've reached the point where I've lost any direct relationship to any of the editors I used to have. I suspect I'll have to pay to publish this myself, and I think a lot about about putting out fifty copies. I used to think about hogwash like my legacy and silly things like that. But I feel like if I never have another book out, I've done okay, I've had like twelve or thirteen little books, and I won't be upset about this on my death bed.” IfsThinkingFeelsLittlesBookDoneUsedLostPayBedDirectOkaySillyLegacyUpsetFiftySuspectsCopiesEditorsTwelvePublishThirteenSilly ThingsDeath BedHogwash Author:Richard Meltzer
“I would love to think there is a direct relationship between coffee and genius, but they've done studies, and if anything, caffeine probably makes you a little less creative.” IfsThinkingLittlesDoneCreativeStudyGeniusDirectCoffeeCaffeine Author:Eric Weiner
“For my first movie, I think my first cut was like three hours, because when you first direct a movie, you want to keep everything. But I'm not one of those directors who falls in love with the stuff they've done. Already when I'm doing my first cut, I'm willing to cut out everything that is necessary.” ThinkingWantFirstsDoneFallThreeStuffHoursCuttingWillingDirectorsDirectFalling In Love Author:Alejandro Amenabar
“We've done things that are faster at times, but it's definitely different when we direct all the episodes because it's like we have to write them all, then shoot them all, then edit them all. So we have to just get ahead on those scripts basically.” WritingDifferentDoneDirectScriptsFasterEpisodesEditsGet Ahead Author:Mark Duplass
“I kind of don't believe in actors directing themselves. Obviously some people have done it well, but I don't see how I could. It's funny that you ask, because I've just been thinking that maybe I'd rather direct The Bell Jar than act in it. It's a huge leap to go from a short to a feature, so I'm tentative - I'm like, Well, that's just so triple-type-A personality of you.” PeopleThinkingBelieveWellsKindDoneActorsAsksHugeTypePersonalityDirectDon't BelieveFeaturesLeapBellsJarsBell Jar Author:Julia Stiles
“I do think we've looked at this film [Doctor Strange] not with any direct genre comparison but as a play on the supernatural genre. Certainly more so than we've done in the past, which is what makes his journey from person that doesn't wear a cape to person who does wear a cape - cloak, much more unique than we've seen in the past.” ThinkingPersonsDoeDonePlayPastFilmJourneyStrangeUniqueDirectDoctorsGenreComparisonCloaksCapes Author:Kevin Feige
“And Mel [Brooks] - you have to understand this important point - he had done "The Producers" for $50,000 over two years, and he didn't make a penny from it. And then he did "The Twelve Chairs" - $50,000 for two more years and didn't make a penny from it. That's four years of work. And then they offered him quite a bit of money to direct "Young Frankenstein," and he took it.” YearsTwoImportantDoneYoungBitsFourDirectProducersChairsTwo YearsFour YearsTwelvePenniesBrooks Author:Gene Wilder
“What has ISIS done to the women in the cities they have conquered? Direct enslavement, humiliation and turning women into concubines to be bought and sold. This was something nobody expected to see in Iraq.” DoneCitiesDirectIraqExpectedHumiliationIsisEnslavementConcubines Author:Yanar Mohammed
“Cuba is not like bourgeois democracy the ones that imposes the blockade to make Cuba change. We have direct elections. Here they put people on a list and then tell the people supposedly what they have done so they can be elected. That is the difference and why we say our democracy is truly participatory and popular.” PeopleDoneDifferencesDemocracyDirectElectionListsCubaBourgeoisBlockades Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“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
“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
“I've always thought that each album would be my last one, and then I would be out of ideas and I would move to photography or something. I thought it was transient and it's not because of this entrenched career stubbornness that I've done it for so long, it's just something I enjoy doing, and it's the most direct way I can express something.” LongDoneMovingEnjoyPhotographyDirectStubbornness Author:Tim Hecker
“Since the Donald Trump election, which has involved this administration making direct attacks on press freedoms, you're actually seeing a certain amount of rallying and reinvigoration by the national press in terms of covering national issues and the presidency. The Washington Post and The New York Times, Mother Jones, ProPublica and a lot of other places, they've actually done some really strong work when confronted with this administration. But the resources that you used to have at state and local level aren't there anymore.” DoneMotherStrongTermDirectElectionFreedom Of The Press Author:David Simon
“Actors always direct themselves. A good actor shows up onset ready, especially in television, and you've done your homework and you know your character. The director may have some variation on what you're thinking or they may have a different interpretation of the scene. So you come prepared to shoot and you've given yourself notes. In television, it may be the first time you're meeting this director and you've been living in this character's skin for a couple of years. It's always great to have fresh perspective and fresh insight, but no one knows your character better than you do.” ThinkingDifferentDoneCharacterPerspectiveCoupleSceneFirst TimeDirectSkinsMeetingsInsightHomework Author:Noah Emmerich
“Between food and fashion, there's always a direct correlations - designers have forever done prints with food on them. Vegetables, fruit, apples. There are some beautiful prints that have been made with fruit over time. I think food and restaurants have become more and more fashionable over time. That's become more of a fashion thing than fashion becoming a food thing. I don't think fashion has gotten so food oriented in the reverse aspect, but I think the whole food industry has gotten very design oriented. I think it's a nice way of putting things together.” ThinkingDoneTogetherBeautifulForeverNiceFashionDesignDirectDesignerPrintFashionable Author:Nicole Miller
“I've constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct me.” I CanDoneMaterialsDirectorsDirect Author:Ashton Kutcher
“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.” DonePlayFeltLaughterDirectVacationEpidemicsTime OffMobster Author:Christian Slater
“One must see in every human being only that which is worthy of praise. When this is done, one can be a friend to the whole human race. If, however, we look at people from the standpoint of their faults, then being a friend to them is a formidable task............ .....Thus is it incumbent upon us, when we direct our gaze toward other people, to see where they excel, not where they fail.” PeopleIfsHumansLooksDoneWholeHuman BeingsRaceFailingTasksDirectPraiseFaultsWorthyHuman RaceStandpointFormidableIncumbents Author:Abdu'l-Bahá
“We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.” MayDoneScienceHumanityChanceForgetViewsMankindPureProveBenefitsDiscoveryDirectPoint Of ViewProofHospitalsUsefulnessScientific DiscoveryMarieDiscovery In Science Author:Marie Curie
“Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.” DoneCareersDirectExpectedProportion Author:Brian Tracy