#dire

Then I decided I couldn't just crawl in the corner and die, so I started putting pen to paper and wrote some songs. I had no idea what for or who I was going to work with. I tried to find my way and direction. ↗

— Glenn Tipton

#crawl #decided #die #direction #find

I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30. ↗

— Ryan Phillippe

#directed #film #first #i #like

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#direct experience #experience #independent #intellectual #prior

I would say that the directors that I've liked the most are all curious in nature - curious thinkers. They're all big questioners, I would say, first and foremost. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#curious #directors #first #foremost #i

It's hard to be surprised by a film. It's hard to be surprised by another actor or by a director when you've seen enough and been around. So when I am, or when I forget that I'm watching someone's movie, or when I don't know how someone made a certain turn that I didn't expect . . . You know, I'm in. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#am #another #around #been #certain

When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that. ↗

— Michael Pitt

#give #input #scared #their #very

I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there. ↗

— Jeremy Piven

#chair #choreography #directed #doing #father

There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal to the worst in people. Our society is moving in that direction. ↗

— Major Owens

#direction #highly #moving #our #people

Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#chance #considering #director #i #i do

Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right. ↗

— Otto Preminger

#each #get #her #lassie #like