Quotes About Direction

It's not that I'm Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes now, but I've got my priorities in order.

I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything.

Companies that are successful, it starts with the CEO and starts with the CEO's priorities.

Prioritize your work, be clear with what you want to do in your life.

I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.

CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business.

Every pro has to decide what they want from their ball.

After college I was like, Oh, I want to play pro,' but I didn't know exactly what that meant.

A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.

The particular aspect of time that I'm interested in is the arrow of time: the fact that the past is different from the future. We remember the past but we don't remember the future. There are irreversible processes. There are things that happen, like you turn an egg into an omelet, but you can't turn an omelet into an egg.

When you produce and direct, your movies are different to you. They're not just something you act in.

I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.

I would say the most important aspect of direction is that you, as a director, and your producer need to be on the same page, the same line of thinking. If that doesn't happen in the beginning of the film, then that will show in the final product 100 percent.

The beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says, You're finished.

The producer should decide what kind of music is being made, what it's going to sound like - all of it: the why, when, and how.

I'm not interested in being the producer of somebody else's song.

When I'm on a picture, I have two bosses - the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss.

A composer like me finds it impossible to work with today's producers. They want to tell you exactly how to compose, which notes to play, which rhythms to put in which part of the song.

I prefer directing to producing as it is far more satisfying.

You can have the best product in the world, you can have the best motivation in the world, you can have best education in the world, you can have all the money in the world - but if you don't have direction, you'll never go anywhere.

My talent is definitely a gift. I don't understand where it comes from. I don't play an instrument, and I never went to school for music production, but I know exactly how a song should sound and how to give an artist direction.

I don't profess to have any religion, but if I did, my God would be Fidel Castro. He is like a ship that knew to take his crew on the right path.

We have the opportunity not just to choose our job or profession, but also to choose the sort of life we want to live and the imprint we will leave on others.

The difficulty in life is the choice.