Quotes About Influence

It takes people to move crowds in the right direction, crowds by themselves just stand around and mutter.

Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.

Why shouldn't a child look to want to be a political figure, to change our nation, to lead us the right directions?

England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more directly about my own experience, it wasn't England so much as what went before.

I work directly for the boss. I listen to everybody, but I have one man whose voice is louder than everybody else's.

Working with Bob Weir directly, we learned how high the bar is for Dead music.

When you try to teach children things, you're trying not necessarily to do it directly.

It's very clear that Mr. DeSantis is taking a page directly from the campaign manual of Donald Trump.

When you're little you either want to be like your dad or be directly opposite.

It's clear that the RSS is directly taking key decisions on behalf of the BJP. RSS policies are not compliant with our country's interests. The RSS doesn't accept secularism.

Since I descend just as directly from Catherine de' Medici as I do from Diane de Poitiers, I have no personal interest in damning the one while glorifying the other.

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

The audience has always been my best director.

'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want to work with a director, even if the script or the part's not that great.

Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.

I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it.

I can count on one hand the directors who actually directed me.

If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.

I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

I'm willing to have two directors on the DuPont board, me being one of them.

There is dirty politics in sports federations.

The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.