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Quotes About Director

Strange," mused the Director, as they turned away, "strange to think that even in Our Ford's day most games were played without more apparatus than a ball or two and a few sticks and perhaps a bit of netting. Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption.
~ Aldous Huxley
But one of the students was fool enough to ask where the advantage lay. My good boy! The Director wheeled sharply round on him. Can't you see? Can't you SEE? He raised a hand; his expression was solemn. Bokanovsky's Process is one of the major instruments of social stability! Major instruments of social stability. Standard men and women; in uniform batches. The whole of a small factory staffed with the products of bokanovskified egg.
~ Aldous Huxley
singer you did really well. You saved the number." The director said the same thing at the end of the show. "You did a great job," he told me. To which I replied: "Mr. Voice has sung his last song." Messing up on live TV taught me an important lesson about show business: learn to laugh at yourself.
~ Alex Trebek
Sad to say, this Islamophilia problem does not occur only at the low-ranking level of Director of the CIA. But at least you've always got the army, haven't you? Surely that is one remaining bastion of common sense that would never bend to such cravenness.
~ Douglas Murray
The angles are the director's thoughts. The lighting is his philosophy.
~ Douglas Sirk
The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.
~ Drew Barrymore
Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.
~ Steven Spielberg
Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.
~ Tony Goldwyn
You are the director of your own life story. Don't cast idiots or people will walk out during your 2nd act.
~ Dane Cook
How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
~ Daniel Day-Lewis
I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.
~ Alfonso Ribeiro
In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Life is like a motion picture, everything is like a movie. In one of my rhymes I say, "My life is like a movie/Directed by King Louie".
~ King Louie
Richard Nixon reached his home in New York and dialed J. Edgar Hoover. The FBI Director said that the Dallas police had picked up a suspect named Lee Harvey Oswald.
~ Jim Bishop
I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company. I won't work in another country for a year any longer, because I have a lovely wife and I adore her and I can't bear to be away from her.
~ Jim Dale
Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.
~ Jim Ramstad
DON M. GREEN is Executive Director of the nonprofit Napoleon Hill Foundation, a position he has held for fourteen years. Don is a board member of The University of Virginia/Wise and president of the University of Virginia/Wise Foundation Board. Prior to his position with the Napoleon Hill Foundation, he was a bank
~ Jim Stovall
I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets.
~ Jimmy Stewart
As a director of a large corporation I'm having as much fun now as I ever did in those crazy Black Bottom-and-Charleston days when Scott Fitzgerald called me "the best example of the flapper.
~ Joan Crawford
The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.
~ Joan Fontaine
Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.
~ Joaquin Phoenix
Casting director was a part-time thing, which later became a full-time job because there was a lack of casting directors in our industry and people were looking for professionals to do it.
~ Abhishek Banerjee
After the success of 'Smokey,' my profit participation only went up on future movies I directed.
~ Hal Needham
I was working as a flight director on the Gemini IX mission, and it seemed almost overnight I was picking up the responsibilities for the Apollo Program.
~ Gene Kranz