Direct Quotes - Page 40

• Mental or spiritual health, which is rationality, makes for progress, and the future demands greater and greater mental or spiritual health, greater and greater rationality. The brain must dominate and direct both the individual and society in the time to come, not the belly and the heart.

  Jack London

  Spiritual, Heart, Brain

  Jack London (2014). “The Kempton-Wase Letters”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• I can direct things but I can't write. My memory is going, so I struggle for words.

  Terry Jones

  Memories, Struggle, Writing

  Source: deadline.com

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• He [God] made us free, and He respects that. It is two different spheres of causality. Interdependent, though. It is not two boxes looking at one another without any kind of direct connections. There are very direct connections. That's why the question of "how are we free if God is omnipotent?" is a real, constant question. Ultimately, God is all powerful, and yet we are free.

  Francis George

  Powerful, Real, Two

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• The difference between directing film and directing television is so stark simply because TV is a living breathing organism already when you direct an episode.

  Jon Hamm

  Breathing, Differences, Television

  "Jon Hamm Gets By With Help From His 'Friends'". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. July 17, 2012.

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• I worked with John Maybury on The Jacket and I think he's an extraordinary film-maker. I read the first drafts of this piece when I was working on The Jacket, and we'd so fallen in love with him that we thought he was the only person that should direct this! We wrote poems for him, we sent him champagne and cakes. Four years later he finally read it.

  Keira Knightley

  Thinking, Years, Cake

  "The Edge of Love - Keira Knightley interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• [Directing first film:] I was terrified, it was really very scary because there is a lot of responsibility. I think I was terrified because I wanted it to work so much. A lot of actors direct movies but I thought the stakes were kind of higher for me because I really, really cared. [...] I just worked as hard as I possibly could on every single thing, every single day. I said that if this failed it would not be because I didn't work as hard as I possibly could...every day.

  Ben Affleck

  Responsibility, Thinking, Scary

  "Gone Baby Gone - Ben Affleck interview" by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• But actually my dad is a very talented director and not just his use of shots and camera, but he's very good with actors and he knows acting well. It's great to see him do that and be really good at it and he's been doing it for a while and he certainly knows how to make movies, and little movies I guess for a television show, and he's going to come back in November to direct a second episode, which I'm really excited about.

  Emily Deschanel

  Dad, Acting, Actors

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I think in a post-9/11 world, with the images coming back from Iraq, everybody knows more and more people who are going over there... the images on the YouTube phenomenon where the violence is so immediate. Direct people need something stronger to respond to. I think that there's definitely a wave of directors - who are labelled the splat pack - who really, really care about making great scary movies.

  Eli Roth

  Thinking, Iraq, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Complicated things for me tend not to be interesting. Simple things, like when it's really direct eye contact, or when you see a really beautiful shape, like when it's clean or well balanced in the frame.

  Russell James

  Beautiful, Eye, Simple

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A movie is a creative process from its conception, through its writing, to its execution, to the editing. I think with the best films there is some kind of contribution from one person all the way through that. The best films are made by people who write, direct, and edit, so there's continuity.

  Simon Pegg

  Writing, Thinking, Editing

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. October 2, 2008.

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• When I'm writing a song, things are always popping into my head, it's not so direct. It feels more like I'm in a room and there's this whole big jumble of clothes on the floor and it's like choosing what to wear. There are a lot of different things in there and you kind of pull something out and think, "No, that's not right," or you're like, "Yes I'll put this on with this."

  Julia Stone

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  "Angus and Julia Stone Synch Up". Interview with Olivia Fleming, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 31, 2014.

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• People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.

  Julianne Moore

  Eye, Thinking, People

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. May 28, 2008.

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• I have my set rigged with the biggest sound system possible and have a mini jack for my iPod attached to my director's chair. I find playing music is a very direct way to communicate with actors and the crew, especially those crew members who are on the periphery of the set. I like dancing on set too, it's a good way to release tension.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Ipods, Dancing, Sound

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The team you belong to must come ahead of the team you lead: this is putting team results (e.g., organizational needs) ahead of individual agendas (e.g., the team or division you lead, your ego, your need for recognition, your career development, etc.) Confidentiality is respected downward more than it is respected upward. Organizational alignment is a direct result of this hierarchy (if it were the other way around, organizational alignment would be very difficult to achieve).

  Patrick Lencioni

  Team, Careers, Ego

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• I always wanted to write movies that I'd direct. I didn't come at it from a writing standpoint more than a directing standpoint, except that growing up, I didn't have the opportunity to shoot as much as I did to write.

  Noah Baumbach

  Growing Up, Writing, Opportunity

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's music in my films but you seldom hear it. Very early I got the idea that the important things in films were people - the actors. They are the intermediary between the director and the audience. They make direct contact. People to people communication.

  Frank Capra

  Communication, Ideas, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We have a direct contact with our clothes; they're like a little house. You have to feel good and at home in what you wear and. I think that's elegance. Chanel said something like: "When a woman is badly dressed, one sees the dress, and when she is well dressed, one sees the woman." That's what I'm talking about.

  Christophe Lemaitre

  Home, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Well, actors get very frustrated with giving control to other people. They have their own ideas and wants for their characters. Warren Beatty once told me that he thought actors ended up directing out of frustration. If you have a strong sense of how to communicate a film, you should direct. The problem is that it is a huge commitment. I'd rather direct a play than a film due to the time. A movie can tie you up for a year or more.

  Alec Baldwin

  Movie, Strong, Character

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• I would love to be able to get behind the camera and direct actors. I think that would be a lot of fun.

  Colin Hanks

  Fun, Thinking, Actors

  "Tower Records' Fallen Empire". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 16, 2015.

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• New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness. A lot of people seem to be similar to the kid in school, which is doing a lot of things with no direct consequence to their joy, or their lives.

  Ezra Miller

  School, Kids, Concentration Of Wealth

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Manga uses Japanese traditional structures in how to teach the student and to transmit a very direct message. You learn from the teacher by watching from behind his back. The whole teacher-master thing is part of Asian culture, I think.

  Takashi Murakami

  Teacher, Thinking, Asian

  Interview with Alison Gingeras, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 15, 2010.

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• I'm pretty busy in my life and I'm very aware of what it takes to direct a movie. It takes a lot out of you; it takes a lot out of the rest of your life, from other people in your life. I don't lie around hungering for that consumption very often.

  Edward Norton

  Lying, People, Rest Of Your Life

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

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• I start to get fixated on a story and a character and an idea, and at a certain point, I really want to do it. It's a compulsion to explore a specific thing, as opposed to a compulsion to direct, generally speaking.

  Edward Norton

  Character, Ideas, Stories

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

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• See, I don't get the sense that you need to direct at all. Sometimes I get the opposite sensation from you, that you're like, "I really should go do something else." But then you are drawn back in by a particular story, like a hangnail in the brain.

  Edward Norton

  Opposites, Brain, Needs

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

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• When you direct a film, everything should be about the story and nothing else.

  Esra Saydam

  Stories, Film, Should

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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