Direct Quotes

I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press.

Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

I've always been a direct guy.

I've spent over 25 years in the television industry, the direct response industry. I met a lot of people and certainly learned the power of commercials and their brand building potential.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Able Danger consisted of approximately 20 direct individuals working for Special Forces in Tampa, Florida. The total amount of people working for Able Danger was 20.

It's not good to be in a situation where people don't want to direct you or don't want to question something.

When we were trying to get the money for Driving Miss Daisy, everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen.

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction.

I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.

I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.

I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go.

My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful.

My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it.

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

I'm impossible to direct. I couldn't get myself to do anything.

Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes.

You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.

A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat to the lives and the livelihoods and the stability not only of the region but beyond.

At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.

I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much narcissism flowing in this industry, I was like, 'Really, one more?' So I was against it at first. But I really love the idea of the direct connection - there's no middle man muddling it up.

I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So, for me, I don't really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking.

To have that opportunity to direct under my belt was fantastic, so I'm glad I did it.

There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one.

Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.