Quotes About Direction

Sometimes you will get feedback that is contrary to your vision. You may be trying to drive in a particular direction that people don't necessarily understand at first.

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

I think as females, we always want to have more air time, more room time, more - longer matches and more main events. But, at the end of the day, we're going in that direction, and I'm happy with that, and I'm happy with the side everyone has taken in women's wrestling.

It is not always important that you have dialogues. How you present your role depends on the director and the cameraman; the actor also has few things to do.

We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for.

If I'm going to take my clothes off I figured I might as well do it for something that I'm directing myself since I had complete control of the edit.

But what I was going to say was, I just figured I'm going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me.

I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

I feel like the first record was really finding my feet, figuring out what music I wanted to make... Now that I've done that, I feel like I've got a much clearer idea of what I want to sound like and what I want to discover. It's exciting.

I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be?

I could see when I was filming '21' that it was going to go a direction I wasn't comfortable with it going.

At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.

It was never really my plan to become a filmmaker.

I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years, and really thought I was going to be a filmmaker, and then I kind of drifted over to the acting side after that.

I was always interested in film, but I never knew how to go about becoming a filmmaker.

You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.

I was very restless, but finally I found my way.

You can take your life into your own hands in terms of directing. There are ways for you to finance yourself and to write and make a film.

If you focus too much on business or finance, then sometimes you don't move ahead as much as you could.

I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.

Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

I have been into acting and direction, but choreography is my first love.