I wouldn't be here if it weren't for 'Show Boat.' The kind of theater I chose to be involved in is completely a direct reflection of what 'Show Boat' made possible.
If you think that something worked and your directing partner doesn't think so, then maybe you have to re-think what you were doing.
I enjoy scenes in films, which do not have the pressure of the story so much... and it flows. I've tried to go in that direction.
The volume of your impacts is measured by the direction of your movements, the passion with which you inspire and the attitudes by which you make an influence!
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
I took an oath to protect the people of Arizona, and that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to keep pushing in that direction.
There's a direct link between percentage of young people that are educated and how we live our lives.
A conductor can do wild things which can feel forced, but if you're directing from within the orchestra, you can't do that, things have to feel natural.
I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison.
We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.
I had a feeling about directing Cocoon II: The Return. At first I wasn't too interested because it was a sequel. Then I read the script and was excited by the relationships and its mystic quality.
I do think the story in Halloween 5 is a bit stupid, and there's a lot more blood. They're obviously going to take the Halloween series in a different direction.
My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.
I'm a huge fan of Brad Pitt. He could have done rom-coms his entire career, but he took it in a different direction.
They've discovered that, where all the other galaxies are moving in one direction, ours is going in another. Now, the Big Bang theory says that we're all moving outward.
But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.
I have a sort of long-term plan to direct. I'm pragmatic about it. I realize I don't need to rush it or force it.
the wind is scary.. during a tornado or in life in general.. never know when a gust is going to come in your direction and change everything
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.
I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.
People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.
