Directed Quotes
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Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.
Peter McWilliams
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Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.
Ludwig von Mises
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To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation
Dr. Carl Sagan
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Nowadays you`d have many battles before you blow it up, but eventually you`d take it down. And that`s okay, I don`t heavily quarrel with that, but for me personally, having made films for years and directed for 33 years, it just seems to me that I long fo...
Clint Eastwood
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And I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed.
Clint Eastwood
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I like to be directed, it`s true. If I didn`t like that, I`d do something else. Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else.
Catherine Deneuve
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[Asked why he hasn`t personally directed more movies] Just watch "Maximum Overdrive."
Stephen King
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Regarding his commitment to directing Jarhead (2005) without a personal soldiering background: "This is new territory to me, but I hadn`t spent two days in American suburbia when I directed American Beauty (1999). I only knew the script had an unusual and...
Sam Mendes
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I respond to the call that says, "It`s 185 A.D. You`re a Roman general. You`re being directed by Ridley Scott." That`s something my imagination can get a hold of. [on what attracts him to prospective films]
Russell Crowe
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One of the proud moments for us was Robert Wise, who directed Sound of Music and West Side Story, he is the great-great grandfather of musical cinema and he said, I`ve seen Moulin Rouge and the musical has been re-invented." I bring this up because you ge...
Baz Luhrmann
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Regarding his spat with New Line: "We have a great many friends at New Line and utmost respect for the risk they took with us and it hurts to be hit with the level of venom directed at us from individuals in that company. It`s been a lot more nasty behind...
Peter Jackson
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You`re young forever when you write. Alfred Hitchcock directed until the day he died. As long as you don`t have any dementia or Alzheimer`s, if you have your All-Bran every day and clear yourself out, I think your brains are gonna be all right.
Mel Brooks
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I frankly am not on the same page with most of the films that are being made by the studios now. I certainly can`t think of any that I wish I had directed. This is not to degrade these pictures they`re making today, like Spider-Man 3 (2007). I`m just not ...
William Friedkin
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One of the first films I went to - I went with my dad because my mother didn`t want to go see a war movie - was Sergeant York (1941). My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from [World War I]. It was directed by Howard Hawks. That was when I fi...
Clint Eastwood
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[About her role in The Mists of Avalon (2001) (TV), directed by German-born Uli Edel, specifically the infamous "threesome" scene]: The guys have on boxers, but I`ve just got, like, a piece of nude stretchy material taped to my breasts and my legs. And th...
Samantha Mathis
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I haven`t been directed by a woman. I`d love to be; it would make a big difference. Often as an actress you can feel very alienated, especially if you are playing the female lead in a male-dominated cast and environment. It`s very hard to feel relaxed, to...
Naomie Harris
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On Stephen King (jokingly): "We have a joke now - because the first two films I directed were period prison movies - that my directing career will stall unless he writes another period prison story" -- Frank Darabont, Creative Screenwriting
Frank Darabont
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About Cement (1999) - "That was a film that Adrian Pasdar directed. He`s been a good friend of mine. It`s kind of a cops and criminals film, but it`s hard to decipher who`s who. We shot it guerrilla-style, mostly out in Long Beach, California. My characte...
Jeffrey Wright
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I guess Titanic because it made the most money. No, I`m kidding. I don`t really have a favorite. Maybe Terminator because that was the film that was the first one back when I was essentially a truck driver. - [about his favorite movie he directed]
James Cameron
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I`ve acted with all types, I`ve directed all types. What you want to understand as a director, is what actors have to offer. They`ll get at it however they get at it. If you can understand that, you can get your work done.
Ron Howard
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Now that I`m directing is where I`ve felt how difficult it is. Out of 200 or so movies made last year, only seven were directed by women. There`s been an enormous leap of women producers and heads of studios, but strangely enough, those women haven`t give...
JoBeth Williams
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(On the most interesting actor he has worked with) "Mickey Rourke, I thought, was really interesting. I did a movie called Johnny Handsome that Walter Hill directed. I had a scene with Mickey in which he says goodbye to me, and I learned something very po...
Forest Whitaker
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But we have to remember that almost all films are written and directed by men. Female characters are women imagined by men, so it`s always this classic figure of a sexy woman with a childish innocence.
Natalie Portman
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[on Joseph L. Mankiewicz] "Letter to Three Wives" and "All About Eve" were marvelous films. I thought that the last good film he made was "Five Fingers," because personally I have not seen a Mankiewicz film that appeared to be well-directed since then. Fo...
James Mason
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[while considering doing Star Wars (1977)]: Science fiction - which gives me pause - but it is to be directed by George Lucas, who did American Graffiti (1973), which makes me think I should. Big part. Fairytale rubbish, but could be interesting.
Alec Guinness
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Because we had two songs on line (before the album was out), people were already making assumptions about what kind of band we were and what our album was going to sound like. And that`s what a lot of the album is about. It`s directed at all those kids th...
George Ross
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There are moments that I`ve had some real brilliance, you know. But I think they are moments. And sometimes, in a career, moments are enough. I never felt I played the great part. I never felt that I directed the great movie. And I can`t say that it`s any...
Dennis Hopper
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When a picture is screened it is largely a reflection of the mind that directed it. If it is a failure the cause of that failure can often be traced directly to the man with the megaphone. I will also state that many screen successes are almost entirely d...
Louis Mayer
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On Roman Polanski, who directed her in Tess (1979): "As a director, he was 10 times more wonderful than as a lover."
Nastassja Kinski
