A great mentor is full of understanding, trust, respect and willing to help his/her mentees to reach the right direction in life.
The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going.
I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.
Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.
No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.
I truly, truly believe that I was going in that direction and all of a sudden fate took me and put me here. It's like something else has other plans for me.
And you know, I'm so used to going 100 miles an hour in every direction and sleeping you know, two, three hours a night, and that's the way I live.
I'm a conservative, and I'm a compassionate conservative. And I think it's important that Florida continues to move in that direction.
Welfare reforms and the whole “happy” exploitation movement are not “baby steps.” They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction.
I've been competitive since day one. Even in little things as a child, like having a twin and a direct competitor for who makes better cookies.
I directed an episode of Touched by an Angel a couple of months ago, and I will be doing more of that. I just like to keep a bit of variety going; it keeps things interesting.
I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.
I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species.
What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula.
I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.
But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism.
It means the third rail has seven hundred volts of direct current running through it. Touch it and you're human popcorn
And over the course of the last six years, as I've directed more features and commercials, I've become better at articulating exactly how I want the audience to feel.
I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.
