Quotes About Engagement

When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.

Interestingly enough, there is a really different dynamic when you're directing something that somebody else has written compared to when you're directing something that you've written. And there's a good and a bad side to it. I think the bad side is that you never feel the same level of connection to the material - you just don't.

When I'm directing a movie, nothing else matters.

Acting in something that I'm directing... I'm really enjoying it because, if for no other reason, that particular acting is like reading my mind on every single take. It's kind of efficient, for better or worse.

For me, all you want from your actor is for them to engage on a deeply emotional level with the material. If you feel like that happens, directing the actors is pretty much done at that point.

I care deeply about the direction of our country.

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

Those who use our public services should be able to deal directly with those who manage and deliver them.

People learn more if they're learning in directly engaging ways.

Television takes you to an altogether different audience and directly to people's living room. On television, I'm being myself, and that's why people relate to me more.

A lot of what's happened with my career has been because of the Internet. It's a way for me to reach fans directly, especially with music.

I love talking directly to the fans.

I'm huge on the dynamic of my show and the experience, not just performing songs. It's important to me to make sure that people experience every song, and feel like I'm singing directly to them. Your eyes never want to leave the stage because there's always something happening.

It's nice to hear from fans directly.

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

The audience has always been my best director.

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

Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.

A lot of times, directors don't know how to speak to actors, or writers don't know how to communicate.

Most companies that are successful listen to people and see what they want and they make that. So when I used to make songs, I'd make mixtapes. The public would tell me what they like and then I would make songs based on what they like. That's how I knew 'Ridin' Dirty' was going to be big - they told me they liked this kind of music.

I don't know how to make movies without getting my hands dirty.

I've always wanted to work with young people from disadvantaged areas.

It's much more fun to talk to an audience that includes a lot of people who disagree with me.

If you are willing to listen and if you are willing to sit around the table, sometimes especially with the people who you think you disagree with the most, it is still really possible to get things done.