Quotes About Communication

I have always liked to speak to people very directly.

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

I can take scripts directly to actors. Agents don't like to hear that.

Sometimes it's hard for me to express my emotions on a conscious level, to directly say my emotions.

I would do a sort of violence to myself if I didn't express myself in the directly creative ways of writing, both words and music.

Of course we all know when music's too much in the head, and we define our greatest players by the way they are able to communicate directly from their emotional selves.

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

I wanted people to hear directly from me that I have been diagnosed with ALS.

I think my music is a way of communicating very directly with people and with people's emotions. I try to make music that doesn't need layers of complexity or obfuscation to speak to people.

I love talking directly to the fans.

It's nice to hear from fans directly.

My job as a director is to communicate, and I want to communicate to all.

As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.

You hear stories about directors using manipulation to get actors to do certain things, but I think when you're working with professional actors, it's all about trust. They can do anything you want, it's just a matter of them understanding what you're looking for, and the reason why.

Some directors I worked with didn't even know how to read a blueprint, understand a plan.

The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.

I'm not the kind of actress who asks a lot of questions of my directors unless it's something I really need to know.

Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says.

I have worked with some great directors.

Bad directors are the ones who want to tell you every move, and think they're a better actor than you.

I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.

I don't like directors that just say, Stand there and now do this.

Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.