Quotes About Direction

Once you make decisions, you can't go back, but in photography, that process can continue. With film, you have to eliminate all the possibilities and make the one possibility work the best for you, so you have to become very creative with the direction you've chosen.

Post 'Pink,' I figured out which direction I want my career to take.

It all comes down to which way you hit the post. Do you hit it on the inside or the outside? Does it go in, or does it go out?

What we can do is to explain as clearly as possible what the benefits would be of him going down one path, and what the potential consequences would be if he chooses another path.

I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

I am not going to go back into coaching, just to go back into coaching. It has to be the right situation. And I don't know what the right situation consists of.

She would give them order. She would create constellations.

When you were under contract, you did what you were told to do.

I like to be in control.

You control what you do offensively, defensively. You're controlling who you play, how you want to play.

I never control a film. The film controls me.

Direction is something that interests me. Even while shooting, I always have conversations with the director to get a better understanding of shooting technicalities.

I am convinced that it is the light and the way.

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.

I went to my school careers counselors and said I wanted to be an actor, and they didn't know what to do. They showed me catalogues with pretty campuses and said, 'Oh, look, there's a theater building. Why don't you go there?'

You keep getting calls, but then doing the right project and being sure of what you want to do is what counts.

I'm trying to be the coach. My actors are my players. They're doing things that I'm too cowardly to do myself.

At 21, you've come out of the craziness. Maybe you've been to university, but now it's time to get serious. It's the age where you make decisions about your life.

If you have no road map, you have to create your own.

I don't get why radio shows allow artists to do shows without creative control, without any art direction at all. Instead of that, I get their press guys, their camera guys to be my backdrop of my show.

I love the idea of having control over the creative process and looking at the bigger picture.

Actually, after 'All Love Lost' I was so drained creatively that I didn't have any clue where I wanted to go. So I just started from scratch.

I was at the crossroads of my life when I was 7 years old.

Running with the wrong crowd will never help you.