Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.
Hamid Karzai

I can't do pieces I only admire technically. I have to feel some direct contact with them.
Michael Tilson Thomas

I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
Barry Sonnenfeld

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.
Alexis Bledel

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

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
A. R. Ammons

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable.
Robert Delaunay

I'd like to see myself married with a child and hopefully still involved in the entertainment business as an actor who is also able to write a bit and direct some projects.
Fred Savage

Whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.
Junius

The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.
Anton Seidl

I think that what is important is that the music be honest and direct and that it is relevant to today. I think music needs to be of its time and speak to that time.
Dave Holland

I did 10 years of comedies and 10 years of Westerns. I really like to stay away from car chases. I prefer the more intimate film. You have a much more direct association with the emotions.
Elmer Bernstein

But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what happened at 9/11 is a direct result of what the economic hit men are doing.
John Perkins

There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.
Mark Rydell

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
John Galsworthy

First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
Barry Levinson

I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.
Nick Lowe

The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.
Charles Rosen

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.
Sophie Marceau

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.
Tobe Hooper