Quotes About Direction

It's not my ambition to direct lots of films. I think if I direct one film in my whole life, why rush it?

Sometimes you want to experience life, but ultimately, you've got to make sacrifices and choose the right road.

To achieve great goals, you all have to walk in the same direction.

When I first started singing, I didn't know which direction to take - I sang rock & roll and all kinds of things.

You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.

I'm not really trying to get in the acting field that hard. I'm trying to really be behind the scenes and direct and produce.

I never wanted to be a scientist.

The brain needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we're coming from and what we're going to.

I've got my head screwed on in the right direction, for the most part. It may be turned a little bit to the left, but we're getting there.

Scripts and directors make great actors, not the other way around.

At 33 years old, I didn't have to work anymore. I had to search through 'What am I going to do for the rest of my life?' I wasn't ready to fly-fish for the rest of my life.

I have a lot of ideas come to me when I'm working that are different from the plan, and sometimes that can be a little overwhelming and difficult for directors.

If I'm owed money, but I say, 'Don't pay me, pay my cousin. Don't pay me, pay my charity,' you can do that, but then the IRS requires that you pay income tax on that. It's your income if you earned it and you directed where it went. If you exercised control over where the money went, you have to pay income tax on that.

The owner always has the final say. You have to decide who is going to be the best fit for the organization.

As a business owner, leadership is more than just telling others what to do. Leadership is about the investment we make into others and the responsibilities we accept for being the voice and direction that others count on.

You need the actors to feel as much ownership of the performance and the direction of the story as you do to get the most out of everyone's potential. Part of it is just making sure we all have the same vision.

I was the leading star in 1945. I slowed down my pace of acting assignments after I came into direction.

The hardest part about directing is getting everyone on the same page.

Everyone feels at times like they're missing a page or two out of the handbook that tells you how to live your life.

If a scene is three pages long, quite often people break it up and do a page, say 'cut' then move on to the next bit, they do it in cuts. I don't really like doing that; I like to go through it all in one organic run, then give notes afterward. A little bit more like theater.

I always said your best palate is your own, not mine. I'm a guidepost.

It's for the Palestinians to decide who will lead them.

It's craziness to see yourself as damaged goods, so I was the goofy kid who'd stop a strange adult and say, 'Do you know how to get to Palm Avenue?' They'd say no, and I'd say, 'You go two blocks and turn right. You can't miss it.'

All I can tell you is 'Black Panther' sets up the MCU to go in a really wonderful new direction, sets up a new language, a new world for the MCU to play in, and that construction is then rocked to its core when Thanos enters in 'Infinity War' - get ready.