#dire

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#directly #eyes #hide #into #lie

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer. ↗

— Dane Cook

#director #doing #producer #sometimes #stand-up

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#artist #beauty #conception #direct #expression

Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing I had to work hardest at was thinking in shots. ↗

— John Crowley

#film #form #fundamentally #good #had

I wish I could say that when I didn't agree with a director I defer to him, but I think sometimes I'm a little self-righteous. ↗

— Billy Crudup

#could #defer #director #him #i

The parameters are such that I don't get offered a lot of work. I'm sure most directors hear my list of don'ts and say forget it. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#forget #get #hear #i #list

It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff. ↗

— David R. Ellis

#directing #great #i #mean #stuff

The first couple of pictures I wrote and directed were dreadful, because I was dealing in worlds that were not familiar to me, and writing about fantasy. They were just not anything I was really connected to. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#anything #because #connected #couple #dealing

If the prime directives were followed a little more accurately here on earth, I mean it sounds somewhat Pollyanna, but I think people would certainly get along better. ↗

— Jonathan Frakes

#along #better #certainly #directives #earth

There's a tendency, when you're directing yourself, not to give the performance as much care, because you feel like there's too much focus on yourself, or that all these people are just standing around setting everything up, waiting for you. ↗

— James Franco

#because #care #directing #everything #feel