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Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor. ↗

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On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

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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. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

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For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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I would like to have directed Hollywood musicals in the '40s and '50s. ↗

— Matthew Bourne

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The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly. ↗

— Vance Packard

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Ultimately in the end, it's the director's choice. ↗

— Donnie Wahlberg

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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. ↗