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I'm impossible to direct. I couldn't get myself to do anything.
Tony Shalhoub

Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.
Michael Apted

Music, Work, Enjoy

In 1977, I climbed a fairly difficult mountain for the first time, which was Mount McKinley, in Alaska. I climbed the so-called 'American Direct Route,' which was a route straight up to the top. I really enjoyed it. Through such experiences, I learned that mountaineering wasn't just about height. I found that different routes have different charms.
Tamae Watanabe

Time, Different, Through

For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it's hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director?
Linda Hunt

Stupidity, Woman, Hard

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

Living, Dead, Story

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
Fanny Brice

Everything, Tell, Audience

Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions.
Bryan Singer

Special, Challenge, Film

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.
Thomas Babington Macaulay

Saying, May, Rest

I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.
Alexis Bledel

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

Movies, School, Thinking

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

Person, Spirit, Longer

I actually then went on to direct an after-school special where one of the characters was deaf. They hired me without even knowing I had any connection to the community.
Richard Masur

Special, Knowing, Actually

The first stage had been all over before the doctors even knew they were dealing with a new sickness; it was the direct reaction to the bombardment of the body, at the moment when the bomb went off, by neutrons, beta particles, and gamma rays.
John Hersey

Before, Moment, Off

Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.
Linda Vester

Life, Important, Sometimes

I've just been learning how to direct my own videos, choreography, doing costumes... every creative opportunity there is with my music I've taken.
Santigold

Music, Learning, Creative

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
Gabriel Lippmann

Problem, Last, Since

Basically I say a few prayers before a game and let that direct me, not superstitions.
Brian McBride

Game, Before, Few

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.
John Ford

Art, Eyes, Once

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

Car, Away, Film

I don't like to direct myself.
Vic Morrow

I want to direct. It's something that I know I'll be really good at.
Gedde Watanabe

I will direct one day, but I have a feeling that it will be very limited.
John Travolta

Feeling, Limited

I want to direct, write, produce... y'know, I love the entertainment industry.
Jason Marsden

Love, Write, Industry

Some people say it's scarier to direct the people you work with; not me, I'm a team guy.
Mark Harmon

Work, Team, Guy

I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up.
Mark Harmon

Hope, Thankful, Mess

I'm just beginning to direct. For all intents and purposes, this is the first time for me.
Mark Harmon

Time, Beginning, Intents

I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

Time, Play, Tell

I have a sort of long-term plan to direct. I'm pragmatic about it. I realize I don't need to rush it or force it.
David Wenham

Plan, Realize, Force

I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab.
David Wenham

Love, Feature, Produce

Our belief is that it is a basket of well-diversified companies that are playing the Internet, but are not direct Internet companies.
John Zimmerman

Playing, Belief, Internet

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