You have to be insane to direct.
Morris Chestnut

Everybody you talk to about insurance says the insurance market has become a lot more vibrant as a result of lifting, allowing the foreign direct investment.
John W. Snow

In dealing with the China problem, the British and American side, which had particularly strong interests in China, should have based its judgments about the origins of the problem on direct observation of the actual circumstances at the time.
Hideki Tojo

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
David Friedman

When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of.
Ed Harris

Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.
Ken Burns

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
Mao Zedong

One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.
Dan Flavin

The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
Elia Kazan

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.
Steven Spielberg

They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.
Salma Hayek

Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.
Michael Pollan

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.
Angela Carter

Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.
Robert McChesney

By providing our school districts with direct access to criminal information records, we can help ensure timely and complete information on prospective school employees.
Jon Porter

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.
Robert Smithson

Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.
Leland Stanford

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
Sam Rayburn

It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration.
James Cash Penney