Quotes About Direction

Well firstly, that points certainly at the need for international standards on biometrics that would move in the same direction so that we can have the same technical requirements.

Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.

I'm not someone who enjoys long talks, long rehearsals. I'm very technical: I tell my actors, you come in, you sit down, you pick up a coffee, you look here, you say the line. We try it with the cameras rolling, and if it doesn't work, we adjust it until it does. It's very simple.

When you're making a film, it's a very technical process. You do things over and over again, and you have to hit your marks and your light and all that stuff.

It always takes some time when you change the technical staff. Sometimes you don't understand what they ask for.

If you have a perfect script, the right actors and technicians, and a good producer, direction is the most enjoyable profession in the world.

Planning defines the particular place you want to be and how you intend to get there. It's a responsibility rather than a technique.

Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.

A teenager has to decide what they're going to do with their life, and that's one of the most important decisions that you'll make.

I was very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel.

These people are headstrong and if they feel the curb loosed but one link they will with bit in the teeth in one month run further out of the career of good order than they will be brought back in three months.

My cartoon life is in my office, and it's very separate and getting very in my own head. My television life is I'm begging one of the actors to say the line in the way I'd like them to.

I don't see myself doing television, but I do see myself directing.

You've got to tell your money what to do or it will leave.

Dealing with actors is incredibly complex because they oftentimes are like pieces of clay. They want to be told how you want it done. You have to then decide if you want to be the teller or if you want to give them agency.

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have.

Imagine going into an office and telling the staff that they have to follow your philosophy. Imagine the reaction you would get if you said that in any other walk of life. Why would I offer that to my players?

First of all, Vince McMahon doesn't argue - he tells you!

There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.

No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.

The head coach tells us what to do, and we follow his orders.

I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.

Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it's direction you get in His Word or something He's specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.